ReviewAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences2016
Extraskeletal actions of vitamin D.
Review in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 88 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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88 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 177 citations in OpenAlex.
- The role of vitamin D signalling in β cell apoptosis: a systematic review.Apoptosis : an international journal on programmed cell death · 2026Pooled it
- Vitamin D and melanoma: an umbrella meta-analysis of serum levels, dietary intake, and VDR polymorphisms.Journal of translational medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Effect of Vitamin D Deficiency on Liver Cancer Risk: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2021Pooled it
- Overuse-Related Injuries of the Musculoskeletal System: Systematic Review and Quantitative Synthesis of Injuries, Locations, Risk Factors and Assessment Techniques.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Pooled it
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- Exercise without Weight Loss Prevents Seasonal Decline in Vitamin D Metabolites: The VitaDEx Randomized Controlled Trial.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Trial
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- The expression and methylation status of vitamin D receptor gene in Behcet's disease.Immunity, inflammation and disease · 2019Trial
- Randomized phase 2 trial of monthly vitamin D to prevent respiratory complications in children with sickle cell disease.Blood advances · 2018Trial
- Dietary Vitamin D2 Is Less Potent Than Vitamin D3 at Maintaining or Restoring Structure and Metabolism of Skeletal Muscle and Heart in Male Rats.Molecular nutrition & food research · 2026Article
- Vitamin D and Brain Health.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026Review
- Combined vitamins D3 and K2 as potential modulators of multiple myeloma cell pathophysiology: transcriptomic and epigenetic effects under standard culture and bone marrow-like conditions.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Article
- The Vitamin D Receptor Ortholog Hr96 Modulates Neuronal and Mitochondrial Dynamics in a Drosophila Model of Alzheimer's Disease.Molecular neurobiology · 2025Article
- Vitamin D in the elderly: the phil-rouge in preventing bone, muscle and adipose deterioration?Archives of endocrinology and metabolism · 2025Review
- Vitamin D and bone health: from physiological function to disease association.Nutrition & metabolism · 2025Review
- Vitamin D Protects Pancreatic Cancer (PC) Cells from Death and DNA Damage Induced by Oxidative Stress.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Dual-route embedding-aware graph neural networks for drug repositioning.Briefings in bioinformatics · 2025Article
- 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D in the elderly population: Comparison of liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry and CLIA immunoassay (LIAISON®XL) methods.Practical laboratory medicine · 2025Article
- Vitamin D deficiency and associated factors among children in a tertiary care hospital setting: A retrospective cohort study.Journal of the Chinese Medical Association : JCMA · 2025Article
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Abstract
The vitamin D receptor (VDR) is found in nearly all, if not all, cells in the body. The enzyme that produces the active metabolite of vitamin D and ligand for VDR, namely CYP27B1, likewise is widely expressed in many cells of the body. These observations indicate that the role of vitamin D is not limited to regulation of bone and mineral homeostasis, as important as that is. Rather, the study of its extraskeletal actions has become the major driving force behind the significant increase in research articles on vitamin D published over the past several decades. A great deal of information has accumulated from cell culture studies, in vivo animal studies, and clinical association studies that confirms that extraskeletal effects of vitamin D are truly widespread and substantial. However, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trials, when done, have by and large not produced the benefits anticipated by the in vitro cell culture and in vivo animal studies. In this review, I will examine the role of vitamin D signaling in a number of extraskeletal tissues and assess the success of translating these findings into treatments of human diseases affecting those extracellular tissues.
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