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The "sunshine vitamin": benefits beyond bone?
Published by Oxford University Press 2007. Although vitamin D is best known for its role in strengthening bone and preventing rickets, it is increasingly apparent that it may have beneficial health effects beyond the skeletal system, among them perhaps the prevention of a number of diseases, including cancer ( 1 ). These health effects have been the focus of two recent National Institutes of He...
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Exposure to sunlight is the major cause of skin cancer. Ultraviolet radiation (UV) from the sun causes damage to DNA by direct absorption and can cause skin cell death. UV also causes production of reactive oxygen species that may interact with DNA to indirectly cause oxidative DNA damage. UV increases accumulation of p53 in skin cells, which upregulates repair genes but promotes death of irrep...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Osteoporosis and Physical Activity
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2329-9509
DOI: 10.4172/2329-9509.1000e110