A Critical Evaluation of Vitamin D

Clinical Overview

Sivakumar Gowder

• Publisher: IntechOpen
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9789535130857
• eBook ISBN:
  9789535148630
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Biochemistry
• Index: Biological Sciences

Vitamin D, a fat-soluble vitamin, also called as "sunshine vitamin" is derived mostly from sun exposure and food, and for normal activation, it has to undergo two hydroxylation reactions. Vitamin D affects more than 2000 genes in the body. Serum level of 25(OH) D is an ideal indicator of vitamin D status in our body. Vitamin D deficiency leads to various diseases. On a therapeutic point of view, vitamin D helps to treat many diseases. The book "A Critical Evaluation of Vitamin D - Clinical Overview" targets the principles, mechanisms, and clinical significance of vitamin D. This book covers four sections: "Vitamin D in Cardiovascular and Renal Diseases", "Vitamin D in Age and Neurological Diseases", "Vitamin D and Cancer" and "Therapeutic Measurements of Vitamin D". Each of these sections is interwoven with the theoretical aspects and experimental techniques of basic and clinical sciences. This book will be a significant source to students, scientists, physicians, healthcare professionals and also other members of this society who are interested in exploring the role of vitamin D in human life.[Vitamin D can be considered as vitamin of "defense" since it cures several diseases. - Sivakumar Gowder]

Table of contents

• A Critical Evaluation of Vitamin D - Clinical Overview
• Contents
• Preface
• Section 1 - Vitamin D in Cardiovascular and Renal Diseases
• Chapter 1 - Vitamin D and Cardiovascular Diseases
• Chapter 2 - Vitamin D and Renal Disease
• Chapter 3 - Pleiotropic Effects of Vitamin D in Kidney Disease
• Section 2 - Vitamin D in Age and Neurological Diseases
• Chapter 4 - Vitamin Deficiency Among the Elderly Institutionalized Patients
• Chapter 5 - Vitamin D Affects Neuronal Peptides in Neurodegenerative Disease: Differences of V-D2 and V-D3 for Affinity to Amyloid-β and Scrapie Prion Protein In Vitro
• Section 3 - Vitamin D and Cancer
• Chapter 6 - Vitamin D and Colorectal Carcinogenesis
• Chapter 7 - Vitamin D, Its Receptor Gene Polymorphism and Breast Cancer
• Chapter 8 - Vitamin D3 and Neurofibromatosis Type 1
• Section 4 - Therapeutic Measurements of Vitamin D
• Chapter 9 - Pathogenic and Therapeutic Role of Vitamin D in Antiphospholipid Syndrome Patients
• Chapter 10 - Therapeutic and Prophylactic Potential of Vitamin D for Multiple Sclerosis
• Chapter 11 - Nanoparticles for Delivery of Vitamin D: Challenges and Opportunities