Vitamin D is one of the most important nutrients required by the human body. It is a steroid
hormone that plays an important role in regulating calcium and phosphorus metabolism, and …

Vitamin D deficiency (levels lower than 20 ng/ml) is becoming a global health problem, since
it is increasingly represented even among healthy subjects. Vitamin D, as an environmental …

The main role of vitamin D is to control mineral homeostasis. However, recent studies
suggested the existence of a number of extraskeletal effects. Among the latter, preclinical …

Vitamin D is a secosteroid with a pleiotropic role in multiple physiological processes.
Besides the well-known activity on bone homeostasis, recent studies suggested a peculiar …

Vitamin D is a steroid hormone traditionally connected to phosphocalcium metabolism. The
discovery of pleiotropic expression of its receptor and of the enzymes involved in its …

The role of vitamin D as an immune modulator has been emphasized in recent years, and
low levels of the hormone were observed in several autoimmune diseases including …

Vitamin D plays a key role in in calcium homeostasis and, thus, provides an important
support in bone growth by aiding in the mineralization of the collagen matrix. However …

In the last few years, more attention has been given to the “non-calcemic” effect of vitamin D.
Several observational studies and meta-analyses demonstrated an association between …

Vitamin D is a pleiotropic secosteroid yielding multiple actions in human physiology.
Besides the canonical regulatory activity on bone metabolism, several non-classical actions …

The main role of vitamin D is regulating bone metabolism and calcium and phosphorus
homeostasis. Over the past few decades, the importance of vitamin D in non-skeletal actions …