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How Do Hormones Effect Bone? Ca2+ Hemostatasis-calcitriol Vs Calcitonin
How do hormones effect bone? Ca2+ Hemostatasis-Calcitriol vs Calcitonin
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How do hormones effect bone? Ca2+ Hemostatasis-Calcitriol vs Calcitonin
Introduction
Have you ever thought about the importance of bones in the human body? Bones are the most important component of the body. A normal human being has 206 bones. All of these working together immaculately able a human being to perform everyday tasks with little difficulty. While running or walking, the bones work together with muscles, organs, and tendons to assist a human. With bones acting as a frame, vital organs such as heart, liver, and brain remain protected from external forces. Without bones, the body would collapse down like a sack of potatoes. Even the normal functions like eating, walking or any other movement would come to a halt. Such is the importance of bones to the human life (Saladin, 2017).
Discussion
Having learned the importance of bones to human life, a question arises about their composition and working with muscles, organs, tendons, and hormones. Hormones have an equally important role to play with bones as other muscles and organs. Calcium Homeostasis precisely maintains and regularize the intercellular and extracellular levels of ionized calcium. Calcium is the most important constituent in the composition of the bones. The rigidity of the bones stems from a tissue called osseous tissue. The osseous tissue has a honeycomb-like structure. Unbalance in calcium ions results in hypercalcemia and hypocalcemia. Higher levels of calcium than normal in your blood can result in hypercalcemia (Saladin, 2017). As a result, bones weaken and severe bone pain can occur. Hypocalcemia is a result of lower levels of calcium which causes spasms and twitch in muscles. Calcitonin, a hormone produced in thyroid glands, keeps the calcium quantities in check (Saladin, 2017). It is secreted in higher quantities when calcium count is lower and vice versa. Calcitriol, produced in the kidneys, is a form of vitamin D. It stops calcium levels from dropping down and consequently weakening of the bones.
Conclusion
Taking into account the above discussion, it is clear that calcium imbalance may have detrimental consequences on human bones. It can increase on decrease hormones production to counter the imbalance.
Reference
(2019). Amazon.com. Retrieved 11 May 2019, from https://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Physiology-Unity-Form-Function/dp/1259277720
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