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- Title
Vitamin D in defense of the human immune response.
- Authors
Adams, John S; Liu, Philip T; Chun, Rene; Modlin, Robert L; Hewison, Martin
- Abstract
Defensin is a generic name reserved for an endogenously synthesized antimicrobial agent. The purpose of this review is to describe a series of discoveries that led to the proposal that 25-hydroxylated metabolites of vitamin D are key, intracellular regulators of the synthesis and action of naturally occurring defensin molecules against bacterial antigens. The discussion will (1) highlight the basic elements of human immune response that is responsive to vitamin D, (2) recount work relevant to the extrarenal expression of the vitamin D-1-hydroxlase (CYP27b1) in the macrophage as an initiator of the innate immune response, and (3) describe recent work on the relevance of the vitamin D intracrine-autocrine-paracrine system in a model of a common and devastating human disease, tuberculosis.
- Publication
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2007, Vol 1117, p94
- ISSN
0077-8923
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1196/annals.1402.036