Sentences with phrase «function of calcitriol»
While the long - term goal of the team is to understand the function of calcitriol in inflammatory diseases, identifying the kidney - specific enhancer region of the genome is already yielding insights into the mechanisms involved in bone disorders.
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Understanding the function of non-kidney calcitriol production and its connection to inflammatory diseases, ranging from multiple sclerosis to arthritis, is of great interest to a number of biomedical researchers, who would like to know whether and how vitamin D could potentially be used to treat these diseases.
The fat - soluble vitamin D is unique in two ways: 1) It is produced mostly via sun exposure, and 2) the active form of vitamin D, calcitriol, actually functions as a hormone.
Calcitriol can be used to reduce the function of the parathyroid gland and to increase calcium absorption from the intestinal tract.