New insights into the mechanisms of vita
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Sylvia Christakos; Puneet Dhawan; Yan Liu; Xiaorong Peng; Angela Porta
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Article
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2003
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract The biologically active metabolite of vitamin D, 1,25‐dihydroxyvitamin D~3~ (1,25(OH)~2~D~3~) is a secosteroid whose genomic mechanism of action is similar to that of other steroid hormones and is mediated by stereospecific interaction of 1,25(OH)~2~D~3~ with the vitamin D receptor (VDR