Vitamin D receptor expression levels determine the severity and complexity of disease progression among leprosy reaction patients

We studied the roles of vitamin D and its receptor, VDR, in the progression of leprosy. The majority of individuals with leprosy from Kolkata, India, with a type 1 or type 2 reaction have low levels of vitamin D3 in serum samples. Interestingly, individuals with a type 2 reaction associated with neu...

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Published in:	New Microbes and New Infections
Main Authors:	D. Mandal, A.H.H. Reja, N. Biswas, P. Bhattacharyya, P.K. Patra, B. Bhattacharya
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Elsevier 2015-07-01
Subjects:	Leprosy vitamin D vitamin D receptor
Online Access:	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2052297515000311