The Role of Vitamin K in Soft-Tissue Calcification

Low-dose menaquinone-7 supplementation improved extra-hepatic vitamin K status, but had no effect on thrombin generation in healthy subjects

(2012) Elke Theuwissen et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Effect of Vitamin K2 Supplementation on Functional Vitamin K Deficiency in Hemodialysis Patients: A Randomized Trial

(2011) Ralf Westenfeld et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF KIDNEY DISEASES

Circulating levels of non-phosphorylated undercarboxylated matrix Gla protein are associated with disease severity in patients with chronic heart failure

(2011) Thor Ueland et al.   CLINICAL SCIENCE

Patients using vitamin K antagonists show increased levels of coronary calcification: an observational study in low-risk atrial fibrillation patients

(2011) B. Weijs et al.   EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL

Circulating Uncarboxylated Matrix Gla Protein Is Associated with Vitamin K Nutritional Status, but Not Coronary Artery Calcium, in Older Adults

(2011) M. Kyla Shea et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Circulating Nonphosphorylated Carboxylated Matrix Gla Protein Predicts Survival in ESRD

(2011) G. Schlieper et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY

Circulating matrix γ-carboxyglutamate protein (MGP) species are refractory to vitamin K treatment in a new case of Keutel syndrome

(2011) E. C. M. CRANENBURG et al.   JOURNAL OF THROMBOSIS AND HAEMOSTASIS

Rapidly Progressive Severe Vascular Calcification Sparing the Kidney Allograft Following Warfarin Initiation

(2010) Marta Hristova et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF KIDNEY DISEASES

Chronic coumarin treatment is associated with increased extracoronary arterial calcification in humans

(2010) R. J. M. W. Rennenberg et al.   BLOOD

Effect of Calcium and the Calcimimetic AMG 641 on Matrix-Gla Protein in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells

(2010) Francisco J. Mendoza et al.   CALCIFIED TISSUE INTERNATIONAL

The Circulating Inactive Form of Matrix Gla Protein Is a Surrogate Marker for Vascular Calcification in Chronic Kidney Disease: A Preliminary Report

(2010) L. J. Schurgers et al.   Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Calcium scores and matrix Gla protein levels: association with vitamin K status

(2010) Roger J. M. W. Rennenberg et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

Undercarboxylated matrix Gla protein is associated with indices of heart failure and mortality in symptomatic aortic stenosis

(2010) T. Ueland et al.   JOURNAL OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

Characterisation and potential diagnostic value of circulating matrix Gla protein (MGP) species

(2010) Ellen Cranenburg et al.   THROMBOSIS AND HAEMOSTASIS

Vitamin K, an example of triage theory: is micronutrient inadequacy linked to diseases of aging?

(2009) Joyce C McCann et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

Gla-Rich Protein Is a Novel Vitamin K-Dependent Protein Present in Serum That Accumulates at Sites of Pathological Calcifications

(2009) Carla S.B. Viegas et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY

The association of uncarboxylated matrix Gla protein with mitral annular calcification differs by diabetes status: The Heart and Soul study

(2009) Benjamin D. Parker et al.   ATHEROSCLEROSIS

Mineralization by Inhibitor Exclusion

(2009) Paul A. Price et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Gla-rich Protein (GRP), A New Vitamin K-dependent Protein Identified from Sturgeon Cartilage and Highly Conserved in Vertebrates

(2008) Carla S. B. Viegas et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Hierarchical Role of Fetuin-A and Acidic Serum Proteins in the Formation and Stabilization of Calcium Phosphate Particles

(2008) Alexander Heiss et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

The Circulating Inactive Form of Matrix Gla Protein (ucMGP) as a Biomarker for Cardiovascular Calcification

(2008) Ellen C.M. Cranenburg et al.   JOURNAL OF VASCULAR RESEARCH

Ucma — A novel secreted factor represents a highly specific marker for distal chondrocytes

(2007) Andreas Tagariello et al.   MATRIX BIOLOGY