Title | Vitamin D [electronic resource] : Basic and Clinical Aspects / edited by Rajiv Kumar |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US, 1984 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2839-1 |
Descript | XIV, 786 p. online resource |
Vitamin D Physiology and Metabolism -- 1. The metabolism, physiology, and function of vitamin D -- 2. The metabolism of dihydroxylated vitamin D metabolites -- 3. Vitamin D metabolism -- 4. 1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D: Response to and production by bone cells -- 5. Regulation of the synthesis of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 and 24,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 in kidney cell culture -- 6. Mammalian 25-hydroxyvitamin D-l-hydroxylase: Measurement and regulation -- 7. The photobiology of vitamin D3 in man -- 8. Vitamin D metabolism during pregnancy -- Mechanism of Action of Vitamin D -- 9. Calcium absorption and the molecular effects of vitamin D3 -- 10. Mode of action of 1?,25-dihydroxyvitamin D -- 11. Some observations on the connection of 1,25-dihydroxy-vitamin D with intestinal protein synthesis and Ca absorption -- 12. Induction of calcium-binding protein in embryonic chick duodenum invitro: Direct assessment of biopotency of vitamin D-steroids -- 13. Vitamin D in the differentiation of myeloid leukemia cells -- 14. 1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 receptor and role of l,25-(OH)2D3 in human cancer cells -- 15. Nature and functions of the plasma binding protein for vitamin D and its metabolites -- 16. The effect of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 on the synthesis of the vitamin K-dependent protein of bone -- 17. Effect of vitamin D on cultured bone cells -- Measurement of Vitamin D Metabolites -- 18. Recent advances in the quantitation of vitamin D and vitamin D metabolites -- 19. Stress testing of plasma 1,25-dihydroxyvitarain D in man -- 20. Measurement of vitamin D and its metabolites by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry -- Miscellaneous -- 21. Synthesis and biological activity of vitamin D conjugates -- 22. Approaches to the synthesis of vitamin D secosterols -- Clinical Aspects -- 23. Vitamin D and involutional osteoporosis -- 24. Sarcoidosis -- 25. Vitamin D abnormalities in hypoparathyroidism and pseudohypoparathyroidism -- 26. Role of the vitamin D system in the pathogenesis of renal osteodystrophy -- 27. Use of vitamin D analogues in renal failure -- 28. Abnormalities of vitamin D metabolism and action in the vitamin D resistant rachitic and osteomalacic diseases -- 29. Resistance to vitamin D -- 30. Vitamin D metabolism in idiopathic renal nephrolithiasis -- Author Index