Sunlight, skin cancer and vitamin D: What are the conclusions of recent findings that protection against solar ultraviolet (UV) radiation causes 25-hydroxyvitamin D deficiency in solid organ-transplant recipients, xeroderma pigmentosum, and other risk groups?

Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 103, Issue 3-5, 2007, Pages 664-667

  Reichrath, Jörg ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cancer; Solar UV exposure; Vitamin D

Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D; VITAMIN D;

ARTICLE; CANCER PREVENTION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; SKIN CANCER; SUN EXPOSURE; SUNLIGHT; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; XERODERMA PIGMENTOSUM;

HEALTH; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SUNLIGHT; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; XERODERMA PIGMENTOSUM;

EID: 33947279485     PISSN: 09600760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsbmb.2006.12.029     Document Type: Article

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