Nutrition and immune system: from the Mediterranean diet to dietary supplementary through the microbiota

L Barrea, G Muscogiuri, E Frias-Toral… - Critical reviews in …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The interaction between nutrition and the immune system is very complex. In particular, at
every stage of the immune response, specific micronutrients, including vitamins and …

Calcium, vitamin D, vitamin K2, and magnesium supplementation and skeletal health

A Capozzi, G Scambia, S Lello - Maturitas, 2020 - Elsevier
Supplementation with calcium (Ca) and/or vitamin D (vitD) is key to the management of
osteoporosis. Other supplements like vitamin K2 (VitK2) and magnesium (Mg) could …

Impact of vitamin D deficiency on COVID-19—a prospective analysis from the CovILD Registry

A Pizzini, M Aichner, S Sahanic, A Böhm, A Egger… - Nutrients, 2020 - mdpi.com
The novel Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus type 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a global health concern. Vitamin D (VITD) …

[HTML][HTML] Role of Vitamins in Pathogenesis and Treatment of Cancers

S Poudineh, M Poudineh, R Roohinezhad, R Khorram… - Kindle, 2023 - preferpub.org
Vitamins with antioxidant characteristics have been shown as potential chemopreventive
agents because of their roles in quenching free radicals and decreasing oxidative damage …

Ionizing radiation as a source of oxidative stress—the protective role of melatonin and vitamin D

J Nuszkiewicz, A Woźniak… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Ionizing radiation (IR) has found widespread application in modern medicine, including
medical imaging and radiotherapy. As a result, both patients and healthcare professionals …

Microglia/macrophages require vitamin D signaling to restrain neuroinflammation and brain injury in a murine ischemic stroke model

P Cui, W Lu, J Wang, F Wang, X Zhang, X Hou… - Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Vitamin D deficiency is associated with worse clinical outcomes after ischemic stroke;
nevertheless, the pathophysiological mechanisms remain largely unexplored. In this study …

Progress in the relationship between vitamin D deficiency and the incidence of type 1 diabetes mellitus in children

LP He, YX Song, T Zhu, W Gu… - Journal of Diabetes …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is an autoimmune disease, due to a large number of islet β
cells damaged, resulting in an absolute lack of insulin, ultimately relying on insulin therapy …

Vitamin D in toddlers, preschool children, and adolescents

SN Taylor - Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism, 2020 - karger.com
Background: Vitamin D supplementation is known to both prevent and treat rickets, a
disease of hypomineralized bone. Childhood is a period of great bone development and …

The relationship between vitamin D and infections including COVID-19: any hopes?

R Taha, S Abureesh, S Alghamdi… - … journal of general …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Vitamin D is proposed to have a potential role in the pathogenicity, clinical presentation,
prognosis, complications, and treatment of several diseases. In addition to its well-known …

Recommendations on the measurement and the clinical use of vitamin D metabolites and vitamin D binding protein–A position paper from the IFCC Committee on …

K Makris, HP Bhattoa, E Cavalier, K Phinney… - Clinica Chimica …, 2021 - Elsevier
Vitamin D, an important hormone with a central role in calcium and phosphate homeostasis,
is required for bone and muscle development as well as preservation of musculoskeletal …