Can you have your cake and eat it too? The sunlight D-lema

British Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 175, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1129-1131

  Holick, M F ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D; 7 DEHYDROCHOLESTEROL; BETA ENDORPHIN; CARBON MONOXIDE; COLECALCIFEROL; CORTICOTROPIN; DNA; MELANIN; MELANOCORTIN 1 RECEPTOR; NITRIC OXIDE; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; PYRIMIDINE; PYRIMIDINE DIMER; SUNSCREEN; THYMIDINE; VITAMIN D;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DIMERIZATION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA STRUCTURE; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; EPIDERMIS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; ISOMERIZATION; LATITUDE; MACROMOLECULE; MELANOGENESIS; NON MELANOMA SKIN CANCER; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RICKETS; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN INFECTION; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SUMMER; SUN EXPOSURE; SUNLIGHT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

HUMANS; SUNLIGHT;

EID: 85006494189     PISSN: 00070963     EISSN: 13652133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bjd.15127     Document Type: Editorial

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