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Vitamin D as a pleiotropic hormone

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  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14110%2F12%3A00062694" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14110/12:00062694 - isvavai.cz</a>

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Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    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

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    O - Miscellaneous

  • CEP classification

    FE - Other fields of internal medicine

  • OECD FORD branch

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Others

  • Publication year

    2012

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů