Vitamin D and cancer
Substantial data indicate the broad importance of vitamin D-based signaling in normal human physiology and the broad effects of vitamin D deficiency. Vitamin D may play a role not only in the control of bone and mineral metabolism, but also appears to be involved in immune function, cardiovascular h...
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New York :
Springer ,
c2011
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Vitamin D: synthesis and catabolism - considerations for cancer causation and therapy
- 2. The molecular cancer biology of the VDR
- 3. Anti-inflammatory activity of calcitriol in cancer
- 4. The epidemiology of Vitamin D and cancer risk
- 5. Vitamin D and Angiogenesis
- 6. Vitamin D: cardiovascular function and disease
- 7. Induction of differentiation in cancer cells by Vitamin D: recognition and mechanisms
- 8. Vitamin D and cancer chemoprevention
- 9. Molecular biology of Vitamin D metabolism and skin cancer
- 10. Vitamin D and prostate cancer
- 11. Vitamin D and Hematologic Malignancies
- 12. The Vitamin D signaling pathway in mammary gland and breast cancer
- 13. Vitamin D and colorectal cancer
- 14. Unique features of the enzyme kinetics for the Vitamin D system, and the implications for the cancer prevention and therapeutics
- 15. Assessment of Vitamin D status in the 21st century