FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITÄT ERLANGEN-NÜRNBERG A vitamin D3 deficiency can lead to severe symptoms, for example in people suffering from allergic asthma. This has already been shown in several studies. However, we still do not fully understand how exactly this vitamin influences the cellular inflammatory reaction in the body. A team of researchers from the Department of Molecular Pneumology...
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Vitamin D3 and omega-3 fatty acids not helpful in reducing risk of frailty
by Brigham and Women’s Hospital Credit: CC0 Public Domain Frailty is defined as reduced physiological reserve and ability to cope with acute stresses. Up to half of adults over the age of 85 live with frailty and thus, preventative measures are greatly needed. Investigators at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a founding member of the Mass...
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Vitamin D2’s impact on human health questionable, but vitamin D3 could be important for fighting infections
by University of Surrey Protein-protein interaction networks for gene products corresponding to the probes (A) significantly down-regulated or (B) significantly up-regulated in both the D2 and D3 treatment groups of the WE cohort, but not the placebo group. Details given in Supplementary Data File 3. The networks were generated using the STRING database of Homo sapiens medium...