Vitamin D and immune function

Nutrients

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2502-2521

  Prietl, Barbara ^a   Treiber, Gerlies ^a   Pieber, Thomas R ^a   Amrein, Karin ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

25(OH)D; Adaptive immunity; Autoimmunity; Calcitriol; Cholecalciferol; Immune cells; Innate immunity; Vitamin D

Indexed keywords

ALFACALCIDOL; CALCITRIOL; COLECALCIFEROL; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D RECEPTOR;

ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL TYPE; DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOMODULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; LATENT AUTOIMMUNITY DIABETES IN ADULTS; MONOCYTE; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84879977474     PISSN: 20726643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nu5072502     Document Type: Review

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