Vitamin D, in general, is a secosteroid generated in the skin when 7-dehydrocholesterol located there interacts with ultraviolet irradiation - like that commonly found in sunlight . Both the endogenous form of vitamin D (that results from 7-dehydrocholesterol transformation), vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol), and the plant-derived form, vitamin D2 (ergocalcifero...
Cholecalciferol use is indicated for the treatment of specific medical conditions like refractory rickets (or vitamin D resistant rickets), hypoparathyroidism, and familial hypophosphatemia .
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Eau Claire Cooperative Health Centers, Inc., Columbia, South Carolina, United States
University Hospital of Saarland, Dpt. of Internal Medicine IV, Div. of Nephrology and Hypertension, Homburg, Saarland, Germany
Mary Emily Clinical Nutrition Research Unit, Sainte Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, Canada
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States
Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science and Research, New Delhi, Delhi, India
Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science and Research, New Delhi, Delhi, India
Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Providence Medical Research Center, Spokane, Washington, United States
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States
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