1.   Dietary calcium gains access to the organism mostly by transport in the small intestine.

2.   These results indicate that dietary phosphate does not inhibit the protective effects of dietary calcium on luminal solubility and the lytic activity of fatty and bile acids.

3.   The protective effects of dietary calcium on the lytic activity of faecal water and on colonic proliferation have been ascertained in many rodent and human studies.

4.   Only Hu et al reported recently that phsophate inhibits the protective effects of calcium on epithelial proliferation caused by intrarectally instilled deoxycholate.