Vitamin D Activated And Immune Response Increased By Lung Airway Cells

Vitamin D is essential to good health but needs to be activated to function properly in the human body. Until recently, this activation was thought to happen primarily in the kidneys, but a new University of Iowa study finds that the activation step can also occur in lung airway cells. The study also links the vitamin D locally produced in the lung airway cells to activation of two genes that help fight infection. The study results appear in the Nov.

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Filed under: Immune System / Vaccines on November 7th, 2008