Vitamin D in autoimmune, infectious and allergic diseases: A vital player?

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 617-632

  Van Belle, Tom L ^a   Gysemans, Conny ^a   Mathieu, Chantal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

allergy; autoimmunity; immunomodulation; infection; vitamin D

Indexed keywords

VITAMIN D;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ALLERGIC DISEASE; ASTHMA; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BORDETELLA BRONCHISEPTICA INFECTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ENTERITIS; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFECTION; INFLUENZA; INNATE IMMUNITY; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NONHUMAN; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRUS INFECTION; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFECTION; RISK FACTORS; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 80052253347     PISSN: 1521690X     EISSN: 15321908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beem.2011.04.009     Document Type: Review

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