The observations that traditional cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors fail to fully account for the excessive cardiovascular mortality in patients with systemic lupus …
Chemokines are a group of cytokines with low molecular weight that principally direct chemotaxis of target cells. They have prominent roles in the pathogenesis systemic lupus …
J Zhang, PA McCullough, KM Tecson - Reviews in cardiovascular …, 2020 - imrpress.com
There is emerging evidence to suggest that vitamin D deficiency is associated with adverse outcomes in COVID-19 patients. Conversely, vitamin D supplementation protects against an …
L Lin, L Zhang, C Li, Z Gai, Y Li - Current Protein and Peptide …, 2019 - ingentaconnect.com
Vitamin D, as a natural medicine, is known to regulate calcium and phosphate homeostasis. But abundant research has shown that vitamin D also plays a regulatory role in …
M Aparicio-Soto, M Sánchez-Hidalgo… - Nutrition Research …, 2017 - cambridge.org
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic inflammatory and autoimmune disease characterised by multiple organ involvement and a large number of complications. SLE …
S Zhang, DD Miller, W Li - International journal of molecular sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Vitamin D, a fat-soluble prohormone, is endogenously synthesized in response to sunlight or taken from dietary supplements. Since vitamin D receptors are present in most tissues and …
N Jamali, CM Sorenson… - American Journal of …, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
Vitamin D deficiency is linked to pathogenesis of many diseases including cardiovascular, cancer, and various eye diseases. In recent years, important roles for vitamin D in regulation …
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a complex and unpredictable disease which varies greatly among patients and has a significant impact on an individual's daily living and quality …
A Mak - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
Over the past two decades it has been increasingly recognized that vitamin D, aside from its crucial involvement in calcium and phosphate homeostasis and the dynamics of the …