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abbr. for protein induced by vitamin K absence; examples are the abnormal proteins produced in vitamin K-deficient animals, corresponding to coagulation factors II, VII, IX, and X (see blood coagulation) in which some glutamate residues have not been carboxylated to γ-carboxyglutamate residues.
| PIT, PIR-PSD, PIP2 | |
| PK, PKB, PKC |
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Proteins induced by vitamin K deficiency or antagonists; nonfunctional precursor forms of vitamin K-dependent coagulation factors, lacking carboxylation of glutamic acid residues, found in animals treated or poisoned with anticoagulants.
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This article is about town and municipality in Slovenia. For other uses, see Pivka (disambiguation).
| Pivka Občina Pivka |
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| Coordinates: 45°41′N 14°12′E / 45.683°N 14.2°ECoordinates: 45°41′N 14°12′E / 45.683°N 14.2°E | |
| Country |  Slovenia |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Robert Smrdelj |
| Area | |
| • Total | 223.3 km2 (86.2 sq mi) |
| Population (2002)[1] | |
| • Total | 5,926 |
| • Density | 27/km2 (69/sq mi) |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+01) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+02) |
Pivka is a small town and a municipality in Slovenia in the Pivka Basin in the Kras region. It was first mentioned in 1300 as Sancti Petri super Piucha (St. Peter above Pivka). Until 1952 it was called Šentpeter na Krasu (St. Peter in the Karst). It belongs to the traditional region of Inner Carniola.[2]
Although the Pivka region has been a strategically important location since ancient times, it became even more important with the construction of the Vienna-Trieste railway (the Austrian Southern Railway) in 1857 and the Št. Peter na Krasu-Rijeka railway twenty years later. In 1930, while it was under the Italian control, the strategic hills over the town were heavily fortified and included in the Alpine Wall system of defenses, which stretched from the Bay of Genoa to the Kvarner Gulf. Št. Peter na Krasu and the nearby barracks in Hrastje (now part of the town of Pivka) were one of the strongest points in the eastern section of the Alpine Wall.
On the basis of this rich military history from ancient times to the 20th century, the municipality of Pivka is working on a Park of Military History, which currently has a tank and artillery collection, but the project team has ambitious plans to develop the park into a tourism and experience center that will be a major tourist attraction in an area that already attracts many tourists to Postojna Cave and elsewhere. The first military re-enactment was staged in the Park in September 2007.[3]
The Parish Church in the town of Pivka is dedicated to Saint Peter and belongs to the Koper Diocese. A second church in the Radohova Vas neighborhood of the town belongs to the same parish and is dedicated to Saint Lawrence.[4]
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