Vitamin D and the development of allergic disease: How important is it?

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 114-125

  Mirzakhani, H ^a,b   Al Garawi, A ^a,b   Weiss, S T ^a,b,c   Litonjua, A A ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c LABORATORY FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VITAMIN D;

COMPLICATION; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOMODULATION; PREVALENCE; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOMODULATION; PREVALENCE; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 84919781255     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: 13652222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cea.12430     Document Type: Review

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