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SUBMITTER: Saponaro F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7554947 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Saponaro Federica F Saba Alessandro A Zucchi Riccardo R
International journal of molecular sciences 20200908 18
Vitamin D is a steroid hormone classically involved in the calcium metabolism and bone homeostasis. Recently, new and interesting aspects of vitamin D metabolism has been elucidated, namely the special role of the skin, the metabolic control of liver hydroxylase CYP2R1, the specificity of 1α-hydroxylase in different tissues and cell types and the genomic, non-genomic and epigenomic effects of vitamin D receptor, which will be addressed in the present review. Moreover, in the last decades, severa ...[more]