Vitamin D and Ultra Violet Radiation

DeLuca HF . The metabolism and mechanism of action of vitamin D. In Kunio Yagi , ed. Biochemical Aspects of Nutrition. Tokio and Baltimore Japan Scientific Societies Press and University Park Press, 1979: 219–230.

Esvelt RP Schnoes HK DeLuca HF . Vitamin D3 from rat skins irradiated in vitro with ultra violet light. Arch Biochem Biophys 1978; 188: 282–286.

Beadle FC . Cholecalciferol production. In Lawson DEM , ed. Vitamin D. Biochemical, chemical and clinical aspects related to calcium metabolism. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1977: 549–551.

Gupta MM Round JM Stamp TCB . Spontaneous cure of vitamin D deficiency in Asians during summer in Britain. Lancet 1974; 1: 586–588.

Stanbury SW Mawer EB Taylor CM de Silva P . The skin, Vitaman D and the control of its 25-hydroxylation, Mineral Electrolyte Metab 1980; 3: 51–60.

Holick MF McNeill SC MacLaughlin Clark MB Holick SA Potts JT Jr . The epidermis: a unique organ responsible for the photobiosynthesis of vitamin D3. Endocrinology 1979; in press.

Pettifor JM Ross P Wang J Moodley G Couper-Smith J . Rickets in children of rural origin in South Africa: is low dietary calcium a factor? J Paediat 1978; 92: 320–324.

Dunnigan MG McIntosh WB Ford JA . Rickets in Asian immigrants. Lancet 1976; 1: 1346.

Van Den Berg CJ Hill LF Stanbury SW . Inositol phosphates and phytic acid as inhibitors of biological calcification in the rat. Clin Sci 1972; 43: 377–383.