Vitamin D : Basic and Clinical Aspects

Vitamin D Physiology and Metabolism.- 1. The metabolism, physiology, and function of vitamin D.- 2. The metabolism of dihydroxylated vitamin D metabolites.- 3. Vitamin D metabolism.- 4. 1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D: Response to and production by bone cells.- 5. Regulation of the synthesis of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 and 24,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 in kidney cell culture.- 6. Mammalian 25-hydroxyvitamin D-l-hydroxylase: Measurement and regulation.- 7. The photobiology of vitamin D3 in man.- 8. Vitamin D metabolism during pregnancy.- Mechanism of Action of Vitamin D.- 9. Calcium absorption and the molecular effects of vitamin D3.- 10. Mode of action of 1?,25-dihydroxyvitamin D.- 11. Some observations on the connection of 1,25-dihydroxy-vitamin D with intestinal protein synthesis and Ca absorption.- 12. Induction of calcium-binding protein in embryonic chick duodenum invitro: Direct assessment of biopotency of vitamin D-steroids.- 13. Vitamin D in the differentiation of myeloid leukemia cells.- 14. 1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 receptor and role of l,25-(OH)2D3 in human cancer cells.- 15. Nature and functions of the plasma binding protein for vitamin D and its metabolites.- 16. The effect of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 on the synthesis of the vitamin K-dependent protein of bone.- 17. Effect of vitamin D on cultured bone cells.- Measurement of Vitamin D Metabolites.- 18. Recent advances in the quantitation of vitamin D and vitamin D metabolites.- 19. Stress testing of plasma 1,25-dihydroxyvitarain D in man.- 20. Measurement of vitamin D and its metabolites by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.- Miscellaneous.- 21. Synthesis and biological activity of vitamin D conjugates.- 22. Approaches to the synthesis of vitamin D secosterols.- Clinical Aspects.- 23. Vitamin D and involutional osteoporosis.- 24. Sarcoidosis.- 25. Vitamin D abnormalities in hypoparathyroidism and pseudohypoparathyroidism.- 26. Role of the vitamin D system in the pathogenesis of renal osteodystrophy.- 27. Use of vitamin D analogues in renal failure.- 28. Abnormalities of vitamin D metabolism and action in the vitamin D resistant rachitic and osteomalacic diseases.- 29. Resistance to vitamin D.- 30. Vitamin D metabolism in idiopathic renal nephrolithiasis.- Author Index.