… Although other cell types such as pericytes 46 and vessel-derived stem cells 47 may also
play a role in vascular calcification, this review focuses on VSMC because most of our …

… It has the ability of chelate calcium in precipitated minerals giving rise to calcium thiosulfate,
which is several fold more soluble than calcium phosphate or calcium oxalate. As an …

… and cardiovascular mortality in CKD patients. Therefore, we hypothesized that inorganic
phosphate is an important regulator of vascular calcification. Phosphate regulation of HSMC …

… to manage mineral metabolism and renal bone disease in patients undergoing regular …
of vascular calcification. 11 The use of very large oral doses of calcium as a phosphate-binding …

… calcium phosphate; and (iii) in addition, fetuin-A enhances phagocytosis of vesicles by
VSMCs. These observations provide evidence that the uptake of the serum protein fetuin-A by …

… patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) [1]. The high cardiovascular risk may be due in
part to excess vascular calcification … and synthetic atherosclerosis-derived calcium phosphate …

… A fourth, rare form of vascular calcification is calcific uraemic arteriolopathy (calciphylaxis), …
The main constituents of vascular calcifications are calcium and phosphate mainly in the …

… Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a major health problem in the … preventing aggregation of
calcium phosphate clusters and can … of CKD patients with mild to moderate kidney disease not …

… diseases, diabetes, and chronic kidney disease) and is a common consequence of aging.
Calcium phosphate … the hallmark of vascular calcification and can occur in the medial layer of …

… However, it remains unproven that any of these markers reflects calcium phosphate deposition
in the arterial wall. It is therefore unclear at present whether they are of any use for clinical …