Open AccessSerum Vitamin D Level as a Risk Factor for Female Genital Tuberculosis (FGTB)
Author(s) -
Shiv Gautam,
Amita Jain,
Salman Akhtar,
Apala Priyadarshini,
Shyam Pyari Jaiswar
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2017/30084.10636
Subject(s) - medicine , vitamin d and neurology , vitamin , ergocalciferol , tuberculosis , mycobacterium tuberculosis , physiology , gastroenterology , immunology , immune system , sex organ , cholecalciferol , pathology , biology , genetics
Vitamin D is now known to be essential to Mycobacterium tuberculosis containment and killing through activation of 25-hydroxyvitamin-D receptors (VDRs) present on all immune cells or obtained from dietary food stuffs as either vitamin D3 or vegetable vitamin D2 (also known as ergocalciferol).