The extraordinary metabolism of vitamin D

Elife. 2022 Mar 8:11:e77539. doi: 10.7554/eLife.77539.

Authors

Carol L Wagner^{1

2}, Bruce W Hollis^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Neonatology, Shawn Jenkins Children's Hospital, Charleston, United States.
² Darby Children's Research Institute, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, United States.

Abstract

The placenta plays an important role in how vitamin D is metabolized and supplied to the fetus.

Keywords: Vitamin D; developmental biology; epigenetics; fetal programming; human; placenta; transcriptomics.

© 2022, Wagner and Hollis.

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MeSH terms

Female
Fetus / metabolism
Humans
Placenta / metabolism
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Complications*
Vitamin D* / metabolism
Vitamins / metabolism

Substances

Vitamins
Vitamin D