Vitamin D and child health: Some emerging issues

Maternal and Child Nutrition

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 83-85

  Bhutta, Zulfiqar A ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D; 7 DEHYDROCHOLESTEROL; CALCITRIOL; CALCIUM; CATHELICIDIN; COLECALCIFEROL; ERGOCALCIFEROL; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 23; GAMMA INTERFERON; MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHORUS; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D RECEPTOR;

ANGIOGENESIS; APOPTOSIS; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; CALCIUM DEFICIENCY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD NUTRITION; COLD CLIMATE; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; INNATE IMMUNITY; IODINE DEFICIENCY; IRON DEFICIENCY; MACROPHAGE; MALNUTRITION; MONOCYTE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PNEUMONIA; PRENATAL DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; RICKETS; SEIZURE; SUN EXPOSURE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TUBERCULOSIS; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN METABOLISM; ZINC DEFICIENCY;

CHILD; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; SUNLIGHT; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; VITAMINS;

EID: 40949165852     PISSN: 17408695     EISSN: 17408709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8709.2008.00143.x     Document Type: Editorial

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