{"title":"Calcitriol: a hematolymphopoietrope?","authors":"R E Neiberger","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A MEDLINE search of the English-language literature was conducted using the indexing terms 'immunology, calcitriol and vitamin D' to identify studies indicating a role for calcitriol as a primary immunomodulator. Sixty-six papers published between January 1956 and June 1991 were identified. Forty-five of these reports are cited in this review. The data strongly suggest an endocrine, autocrine and/or paracrine role for calcitriol in immune regulation. No unifying hypothesis has yet emerged explaining this collection of data. This paper provides a brief review of immune properties currently attributed to calcitriol.</p>","PeriodicalId":77067,"journal":{"name":"Child nephrology and urology","volume":"12 4","pages":"177-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Child nephrology and urology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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A MEDLINE search of the English-language literature was conducted using the indexing terms 'immunology, calcitriol and vitamin D' to identify studies indicating a role for calcitriol as a primary immunomodulator. Sixty-six papers published between January 1956 and June 1991 were identified. Forty-five of these reports are cited in this review. The data strongly suggest an endocrine, autocrine and/or paracrine role for calcitriol in immune regulation. No unifying hypothesis has yet emerged explaining this collection of data. This paper provides a brief review of immune properties currently attributed to calcitriol.