The vitamin D debate: Translating controlled experiments into reality for human sun exposure times

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 741-745

  Webb, Ann R ^a   Kift, Richard ^a   Berry, Jacqueline L ^a   Rhodes, Lesley E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

VITAMIN D;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; CAUCASIAN; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOMETRY; SEASON; SUNLIGHT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; SEASONS; SUNLIGHT; VITAMIN D;

EID: 79955464989     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: 17511097     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.2011.00898.x     Document Type: Article

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