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Clinical Trial
. 2008 Oct;122(4):829-831.
doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2008.08.020.

Administration of oral vitamin D induces cathelicidin production in atopic individuals

Tissa R Hata  1 , Paul Kotol  2 , Michelle Jackson  2 , Meggie Nguyen  2 , Aimee Paik  2 , Don Udall  2 , Kimi Kanada  2 , Kenshi Yamasaki  2 , Doru Alexandrescu  2 , Richard L Gallo  2
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Administration of oral vitamin D induces cathelicidin production in atopic individuals

Tissa R Hata et al. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2008 Oct.
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Increase in cathelicidin expression in lesional atopic skin. Cathelicidin mRNA measured by qRT-PCR in lesional and nonlesional skin of atopic subjects and nonlesional skin of normal subjects. Atopic involved skin showed significantly higher hCAP18 mRNA expression with vitamin D supplementation compared with normal skin and AD nonlesional skin (P < .01 by 1-way ANOVA). Data are shown as relative expression as normalized by the median of pretreatment controls (bars, median of each group).
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