Vitamin d deficiency in a multiethnic healthy control cohort and altered immune response in vitamin D deficient European-American healthy controls.

In recent years, vitamin D has been shown to possess a wide range of immunomodulatory effects. Although there is extensive amount of research on vitamin D, we lack a comprehensive understanding of the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency or the mechanism by which vitamin D regulates the human immune s...

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Main Authors: Lauren L Ritterhouse, Rufei Lu, Hemangi B Shah, Julie M Robertson, Dustin A Fife, Holden T Maecker, Hongwu Du, Charles G Fathman, Eliza F Chakravarty, R Hal Scofield, Diane L Kamen, Joel M Guthridge, Judith A James
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3984168?pdf=render