On the other hand, there are vitamin D receptors everywhere in the body, including the brain.

It also has weak affinity for the vitamin D receptor.

The vitamin D receptor plays an important role in regulating the hair cycle.

These effects may be mediated through vitamin D receptors expressed in cancer cells.

Its expression was greatly reduced in animals that do not express the vitamin D receptor.

It has recently been discovered that vitamin D receptors are present in most if not all cells in the body.

MN1 also acts as a coactivator of the vitamin D receptor.

They also determined that certain genetic variations in the body's vitamin D receptors played roles in the development of prostate cancer.

When a T-cell encounters a foreign pathogen, it extends a vitamin D receptor.

Caffeine intake increases the rate of bone loss in elderly women and interacts with vitamin D receptor genotypes.

Like 1,25-dihydroxyergocalciferol, paricalcitol acts as an agonist for the vitamin D receptor and thus lowers the blood parathyroid hormone level.

In humans, the vitamin D receptor is encoded by the VDR gene.

Tacalcitol reduces excessive cell turnover in the epidermis by interacting with vitamin D receptors on keratinocytes.

Gender-specific association of vitamin D receptor polymorphism combinations with type 1 diabetes mellitus (co-author, 2002)

In 1969 he determined that vitamin D receptors (VDR) were present in the intestine.

Dr. Riggs said identification of the vitamin D receptor gene was "probably the single most important discovery in osteoporosis in the last decade."

"Parathyroid cell growth in patients with advanced secondary hyperparathyroidism: vitamin D receptor and cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors, p21 and p27."

Polymorphisms in the genes for the vitamin D receptor and FcγR seem to offer protection against severe disease in secondary dengue infection.

Alzheimer's disease is associated with a decrease in vitamin D receptors in the Cornu Ammonius areas (CA 1& 2) of the hippocampus.

Other linked genes include the Hereditary Prostate cancer gene 1 (HPC1), the androgen receptor, and the vitamin D receptor.

Calcitriol mediates its biological effects by binding to the vitamin D receptor (VDR), which is principally located in the nuclei of target cells.

Taylor JA, Hirvonen A, Watson M, et al.: Association of prostate cancer with vitamin D receptor gene polymorphism.

Many of the effects of calcitriol are mediated by its interaction with the calcitriol receptor, also called the vitamin D receptor or VDR.

In a study of vitamin D receptor knockout mice, mice without VDR exhibited motor impairments similar to impairments seen in patients with Parkinson's disease.

Ntais C, Polycarpou A, Ioannidis JP: Vitamin D receptor gene polymorphisms and risk of prostate cancer: a meta-analysis.