Vitamin D and the lung : mechanisms and disease associations / edited by Augusto A. Litonjua.
Vitamin D deficiency is a worldwide problem and many associations with diseases are being discovered. Recently, there has been an interest in the role that vitamin D plays in the inception and progression of lung disease. Vitamin D and the Lung: Mechanisms and Disease Associations delivers a concise...
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from Springer Complete |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Totowa, N.J. : Humana ; London : Springer [distributor], 2012. |
| Series: | Respiratory medicine (New York, N.Y.) ;
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Introduction
- Vitamin D Deficiency: Historical Perspectives / Kumaravel Rajakumar and Michael F. Holick
- Perspective: Evolution of Human Skin Color: How Low Levels of Vitamin D Drove Natural Selection / Scott T. Weiss
- Part 2. Vitamin D Mechanisms of Relevance to Lung Diseases
- Vitamin D and Lung Development in Early Life / Virender K. Rehan and John S. Torday
- Vitamin D and the Innate Immune Response / Aria Vazirnia and Philip T. Liu
- Vitamin D and Regulatory T Cells / Zoë Urry, Sarah Dimeloe and Catherine M. Hawrylowicz
- Dendritic Cell Modulation by the Vitamin D System / Luciano Adorini, Gilles Laverny and Giuseppe Penna
- Vitamin D Modulates Airway Smooth Muscle Function / Audreesh Banerjee and Reynold A. Panettieri Jr.
- Vitamin D: Genetics and Genomic Effects / Kelan G. Tantisira
- Part 3. Disease Associations
- Acute Respiratory Infections / Jonathan M. Mansbach and Carlos A. Camargo Jr.
- The Role of Vitamin D in the Development, Exacerbation, and Severity of Asthma and Allergic Diseases / Augusto A. Litonjua
- Vitamin D and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease / Wim Janssens, An Lehouck, Marc Decramer and Ghislaine Gayan-Ramirez
- Cystic Fibrosis / Helen M. Buntain and Anne B. Chang
- Tuberculosis / Adrian R. Martineau
- Lung Cancer / David C. Christiani and C. Matthew Kinsey.