Vitamin D in preventive medicine: are we ignoring the evidence?
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Vitamin D in preventive medicine: are we ignoring the evidence?
Vitamin D is metabolised by a hepatic 25-hydroxylase into 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) and by a renal 1alpha-hydroxylase into the vitamin D hormone calcitriol. Calcitriol receptors are present in more than thirty different tissues. Apart from the kidney, several tissues also possess the enzyme 1alpha-hydroxylase, which is able to use circulating 25(OH)D as a substrate. Serum levels of 25(OH)D ...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Nutrition
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0007-1145,1475-2662
DOI: 10.1079/bjn2003837