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- Title
Vitamin D, immunity and lupus.
- Authors
Cutolo, M.; K.Otsa
- Abstract
The identification of vitamin D receptor in cells involved in the immune response and the discovery that activated dendritic cells produce vitamin D hormone suggested that vitamin D could exert immunoregulatory effects. Patients with autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) show low 25-OH vitamin D serum levels. In particular, SLE patients have multiple risk factors for vitamin D deficiency and disease severity seems correlated with lower 25-OH vitamin D serum levels. Treatment of vitamin D deficiency could be particularly important in SLE patients due to concomitant insults on their tissues such as bone, and in view of the possible immunomodulatory effects exerted by vitamin D.
- Publication
Lupus, 2008, Vol 17, Issue 1, p6
- ISSN
0961-2033
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1177/0961203307085879