Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Vitamin D and lung inflammatory factors

Posted by Chantel M. Contributed by US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health

In the study of "[Effect of early Vitamin D supplementation on lung inflammatory factors in baby rat with asthma].[Article in Chinese]" by Liu PY, Chen X, Jiang ZQ, Leng L, Wang XQ, Ji GY. by US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health, researchers found that Intervention with appropriate dose of 1,25-(OH)(2)VitD(3) in the early life could improve lung pathologic changes and reduce the effect of inflammatory factors in air way of baby rat asthma model. However, overdose might play detrimental effect.

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