Vitamin D as a pleiotropic hormone
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angličtina
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Vitamin D as a pleiotropic hormone
Original language description
Vitamin D as one of liposoluble vitamins has in clinical practice so far been related to children age and skeletal development. During the last years however, there has been a great deal of new information considering a rather more complicated involvement of vitamin D in a variety of processes and functions of the human body. So there is necessary to consider vitamin D not only as a vitamin but as a potent pleiotropic hormone. Vitamin D receptors were indentified in almost all tissues of human body. Wecan follow a growing body of information about the relationship between vitamin D and individual organ systems and their disorders currently. The long-term lack of vitamin D significantly potentiates cognitive deterioration in the elderly, influences themood up to depression appearance. The positive relationship between vitamin D and the immune system functioning manifests in decreasing number of infective complications. Protective effect in carcinogenesis appears to be of high importan
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O - Miscellaneous
CEP classification
FE - Other fields of internal medicine
OECD FORD branch
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S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2012
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů