Vitamin D deficiency and its relation with some diseases: a review
Plant Archives
; 20(2):5091-5099, 2020.
Article
in English
| CAB Abstracts | ID: covidwho-1787011
ABSTRACT
Vitamin D is fat soluble vitamin synthesis from isoprenoid units by condensation process in vivo when exposure to sun light (weak UV source). The main function of vitamin D is maintenance on calcium hemostasis, beside this function has important role as a protection factor from many disease such as autoimmune diseases and cancer. There are several suggestions to support the immunity such as intake vitamin D that has the ability to reduce the risk of respiratory tract infections, such as epidemiology of influenza and COVID-19. Vitamin D can reduce the risk of COVID-19 infection through the mechanisms including lowering replication of virus by induction of cathelicidins and reduced the inflammatory cytokines that produced from the lining cells of lungs which lead to pneumonia and lung fibrosis due to autoimmune diseases as well as increase the concentrations of anti-inflammatory cytokines.
Prion, Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens of Humans [VV210]; Nutrition related Disorders and Therapeutic Nutrition [VV130]; human diseases; vitamin D; viral diseases; coronavirus disease 2019; vitamins; vitamin D deficiency; reviews; influenza; influenza viruses; infectious diseases; epidemiology; risk; risk reduction; respiratory diseases; respiratory system; viral replication; cathelicidins; inflammation; cytokines; antiinflammatory properties; lungs; pneumonia; man; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; Orthomyxoviridae; Homo; Hominidae; primates; mammals; vertebrates; Chordata; animals; eukaryotes; Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus; Betacoronavirus; Coronavirinae; Coronaviridae; Nidovirales; positive-sense ssRNA Viruses; ssRNA Viruses; RNA Viruses; viruses; negative-sense ssRNA Viruses; SARS-CoV-2; viral infections; flu; communicable diseases; lung diseases; anti-inflammatory properties
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Plant Archives
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2020
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