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A vitamin that includes both CHOLECALCIFEROLS and ERGOCALCIFEROLS, which have the common effect of preventing or curing RICKETS in animals. It can also be viewed as a hormone since it can be formed in SKIN by action of ULTRAVIOLET RAYS upon the precursors, 7-dehydrocholesterol and ERGOSTEROL, and acts on VITAMIN D RECEPTORS to regulate CALCIUM in opposition to PARATHYROID HORMONE.
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Indexed with the subheadings administration & dosage, adverse effects, agonists, analogs & derivatives, analysis, antagonists & inhibitors, biosynthesis, blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemical synthesis, chemistry, classification, economics, genetics, history, immunology, isolation & purification, metabolism, pharmacokinetics, pharmacology, physiology, poisoning, radiation effects, standards, supply & distribution, therapeutic use, toxicity, urine.
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/defic = VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY or RICKETS; /ther use: coordinate disease with /drug ther, not /diet ther
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Vitamin D. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D014807. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D014807
- Vitamin D. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D
- Vitamin D. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q175621