Vitamin D: the vitamin and the hormone

MeSH terms

• Animals
• Biological Transport
• Bone and Bones / metabolism
• Calcium / blood
• Calcium / metabolism
• Calcium / urine
• Calcium, Dietary / administration & dosage
• Chemical Phenomena
• Chemistry
• Chickens
• Cholecalciferol / chemical synthesis
• Cholecalciferol / metabolism
• Chronic Kidney Disease-Mineral and Bone Disorder / drug therapy
• Dihydroxycholecalciferols / biosynthesis
• Dihydroxycholecalciferols / metabolism
• Dihydroxycholecalciferols / physiology
• Dihydroxycholecalciferols / therapeutic use
• Feedback
• Humans
• Hydroxycholecalciferols / metabolism
• Hydroxylation
• Intestinal Absorption
• Kidney / metabolism
• Liver / metabolism
• Parathyroid Hormone / physiology
• Phosphates / metabolism
• Rats
• Skin / metabolism
• Vitamin D* / toxicity