Publication details
Vitamin D – jeho fyziologie, patofyziologie a význam v etiopatogenezi nádorových onemocnění
| Title in English | Vitamin D - the physiology, pathophysiology and importance in the etiopathogenesis of cancer |
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Časopis lékařů českých |
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| Field | Oncology and hematology |
| Keywords | vitamin D; cancer; vitamin D metabolism; antitumor effects of vitamin D |
| Description | Vitamin D is an endogenous product of mammalian organisms, which are synthesized from their own nature of the active substance of steroid hormones which are involved in a number of key metabolic processes in virtually every nuclear cell, either endocrine or subcellular level. Vitamin D represents an extremely interesting and acting pleiotropic molecule. The purpose of this review is to summarize some of the findings of the metabolism of vitamin D with regard to the pathophysiology of cancer. |