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The biophysical nature of biological membranes / Peter F. Curran -- General aspects of ion transport (abstract) / C. Adrian M. Hogben -- The biological implications of alkaline earth chelation / Martin Rubin -- Techniques for studying ion transfer across the alimentary tract / Eugene Y. Berger -- Quantitative studies on the absorption and excretion of calcium from Thiry-Vella intestinal loops in the dog / Carl F. Cramer -- Over-all aspects of calcium and strontium absorption / F.W. Lengemann -- The relationship of age and the intestinal absorption of calcium / H.H. Draper -- Interactions of calcium with other nutrients in intestinal absorption / George K. Davis -- Adaptation to alterations in calcium intake / O.J. Malm -- Turnover and distribution of vitamin D and its mode of action / E. Kodicek -- Vitamin D and the active transport of calcium by the small intestine / David Schachter -- Vitamin D and the absorption of calcium and strontium in vivo / R.H. Wasserman -- Theories of vitamin D action / Harold E. Harrison and Helen C. Harrison -- Phosphopeptides : chemical properties and their possible role in the intestinal absorption of metals / Olof Mellander -- Lactose and the absorption of calcium and strontium / Y. Dupuis and P. Fournier -- Renal excretion and tubular reabsorption of calcium and strontium / Mackenzie Walser and Brian H.B. Robinson -- Studies on the movement of calcium and strontium across the bovine mammary gland / A.R. Twardock -- Calcium-vitamin D-parathyroid interrelationships in lactating rats / Svein Utheim Toverud -- Movement of calcium in muscle and nerve / Abraham M. Shanes -- Transport of calcium through cell membranes as mediated by certain hormones / D.W. Woolley -- Factors and conditions modifying the absorption and retention chronically ingested radiostrontium / Roy O. Thompson -- Some over-all aspects of strontium-calcium discrimination / C.L. Comar.