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Calcitriol and Tacalcitol Modulate Th17 Differentiation Through Osteopontin Receptors: Age-Dependent Insights from a Mouse Breast Cancer Model [PDF]
ImmunoTargets and TherapyAleksandra Strzykalska-Augustyniak, Mateusz Psurski, Honorata Zachary, Beata Filip-Psurska, Dagmara Kłopotowska, Magdalena Milczarek, Marta Świtalska, Martyna Stachowicz-Suhs, Natalia Łabęd&zacute ...
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The Immunological Role of Vitamin D in Primary Immunodeficiencies: A Narrative Review of the Current Literature [PDF]
BiomedicinesVitamin D is a fat-soluble hormone essential for bone mineralization. In addition to this role, vitamin D is known for its immunomodulatory effects through its binding to intracellular vitamin D receptors (VDRs), which translocate to the nucleus of ...
Emanuela Zumbo +4 more
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Vitamin D, vitamin D binding protein, vitamin D receptor levels and cardiac dysautonomia in patients with multiple sclerosis: a cross-sectional study [PDF]
Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 2020 Vitamin D is a pleiotropic steroid hormone that modulates the autonomic balance. Its deficiency has been described as an environmental risk factor for multiple sclerosis (MS).
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Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2022 Hypercalcemia is a common complication in cancer patients Mainly caused by Parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTHrP) secretion and metastasis. Calcitriol secretion is a rare source of hypercalcemia in solid tumors, especially in gastrointestinal ...
Yiraldine Herrera-Martínez +22 more
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Antibodies, 2021 Chronic joint inflammation due to increased secretion of pro-inflammatory cytokines, the accumulation of inflammatory immune cells (mainly macrophages), and vitamin D deficiency leads to cartilage degeneration and the development of osteoarthritis (OA ...
Vikrant Rai +2 more
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BMC Gastroenterology, 2020 Background Hypercalcemia of malignancy is not uncommon in patients with advanced stage cancer. In rare cases the cause of the hypercalcemia is excessive production of calcitriol, the active form of vitamin D.
Maarten Haemels +5 more
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Physiological Basis for Using Vitamin D to Improve Health
Biomedicines, 2023 Vitamin D is essential for life—its sufficiency improves metabolism, hormonal release, immune functions, and maintaining health. Vitamin D deficiency increases the vulnerability and severity of type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, cancer, obesity, and ...
Sunil J. Wimalawansa
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Vitamin D and Glomerulonephritis
Medicina, 2021 Vitamin D presents a plethora of different functions that go beyond its role in skeletal homeostasis. It is an efficient endocrine regulator of the Renin–Angiotensin–Aldosterone System (RAAS) and erythropoiesis, exerts immunomodulatory effects, reduces ...
Guido Gembillo +4 more
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Analysis of the interaction of calcitriol with the disulfide isomerase ERp57 [PDF]
, 2016 Calcitriol, the active form of vitamin D3, can regulate the gene expression through the binding to the nuclear receptor VDR, but it can also display nongenomic actions, acting through a membrane- associated receptor, which has been discovered as the ...
Altieri, Fabio +7 more
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A novel model to explain dietary factors affecting hypocalcaemia in dairy cattle [PDF]
, 2011 Most dairy cows exhibit different degrees of hypocalcaemia around calving because the gestational Ca requirements shift to the disproportionately high Ca requirements of lactation.
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