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Vitamin D Function: From Mineral Ion Regulation to Infection

Vitamin D Function: From Mineral Ion Regulation to Infection

Razzaque, Moshe S.

Hardcover

Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, Book 1493

Medical ReferenceChemistry

ISBN10: 3032043565
ISBN13: 9783032043566
Publisher: Springer
Published: Nov 12 2025
Pages: 155
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.44 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
This book discusses the bidirectional relationship between vitamin D and mineral ions, detailing how these interactions form a physiological feed-forward loop essential for maintaining health, which becomes dysregulated in various disease states.

This book compiles the roles and regulatory mechanisms of vitamin D and mineral ions in human health and disease. The chapters focus on the diverse physiological functions of vitamin D and the critical role of magnesium in maternal-fetal development and the importance of calcium in the gut-glucose axis. The overall content of the book reemphasizes the essential roles of vitamin D and mineral ions in maintaining normal physiological functions across multiple organ systems. Vitamin D is requisite for physiological functions of cells and organs. Vitamin D facilitates the absorption of essential minerals, including calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, copper, zinc, iron, and selenium. While certain minerals, including magnesium and zinc act as cofactors to activate vitamin D. Similarly, calcium and phosphorus are involved in vitamin D-mediated signaling events. Vitamin D also enables the uptake of toxic elements, including lead, arsenic, aluminum, cobalt, and strontium. Although, vitamin D and calcium interactions are well described in the literature, more generalized roles, and regulation of vitamin D on mineral ion metabolism is not well-defined.

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