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Cutting-edge review concerning the molecular and cellular biology of vitamins and hormones

Table of Contents

1. Vitamin D Regulation of Immune FunctionDaniel D Bikle, MD, PhD2. Vitamin D and innate and adaptive immunityMartin Hewison, PhD3. Dendritic Cells Modified by Vitamin D: Future Immunotherapy for Autoimmune DiseasesAyako Wakatsuki Pedersen, Mogens Helweg Claesson and Mai-Britt Zocca4. Retinoic Acid, Immunity, and InflammationChang H. Kim5. Vitamin A and retinoic acid in the regulation of B cell development and antibody productionA. Catharine Ross, Qiuyan Chen and Yifan Ma6. Retinoic Acid Production By Intestinal Dendritic CellsMakoto Iwata and Aya Yokota7. Immune Regulator Vitamin A And T Cell DeathNikolai Engedal8. Vitamin E And ImmunityDidem Pekmezci9. Vitamin D effects on lung immunity and Respiratory diseasesSif Hansdottir MD, MS and Martha M. Monick PhD10. Maternal Vitamin D During Pregnancy And Its Relation To Immune-Mediated Diseases In The OffspringErkkola M, Nwaru BI and Viljakainen HT11. Vitamin D Deficiency And Connective Tissue DiseaseEva Zold, Zsolt Barta, Edit Bodolay12. Key Roles Of Vitamin A, C, And E In Aflatoxin B1 Induced Oxidative StressLokman Alpsoy and Mehmet Emir Yalvac13. Vitamin D, Vitamin D Receptor And Cathelicidin In The Treatment Of TuberculosisP. Selvaraj14. Vitamin D endocrine system and the immune response in rheumatic diseasesMaurizio Cutolo, M. Plebani, Yehuda Shoenfeld, Luciano Adorini, Angela Tincani15. L-carnitine and Intestinal InflammationGeneviève Fortin16. Vitamin D And Inflammatory Bowel DiseaseSandro Ardizzone, Andrea Cassinotti, Maurizio Bevilacqua, Mario Clerici and Gabriele Bianchi Porro17. Vitamin D deficiency and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a vicious circleWim Janssens, Chantal Mathieu, Steven Boonen and Marc Decramer18. Vitamin D as a T cell modulator in multiple sclerosisJoost Smolders and Jan Damoiseaux19. Vitamin D in Solid Organ Transplantation with Special Emphasis on Kidney TransplantationUrsula Thiem and Kyra Borchhardt

About the Author

Trained in biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Dr. Litwack worked on enzymology and the effects of hormones on enzyme systems. Then he was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis at the Biochemical Institute of the Sorbonne in Paris. Dr. Litwack's first position was as Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at Rutgers University in 1954. Six years later, he joined the University of Pennsylvania as associate professor and four years later went to the Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology, as full professor, eventually becoming Deputy Director of the Institute. In 1991, he accepted the Chair of Pharmacology at Thomas Jefferson University where he is also Deputy Director of the Jefferson Cancer Institute and Associate Director for Basic Science in the Jefferson Cancer Center. Dr. Litwack's work has been in the area of mechanisms of steroid receptor action involving especially the glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid receptors, immunophi.