Vitamins and the Immune System

Dr. Litwack has authored 3 textbooks on biochemistry and hormones (one with John Wiley & Sons and 2 with Academic Press/Elsevier) and he has edited more than 70 volumes in the Vitamins & Hormones series (Academic Press/Elsevier); he has edited 14 volumes entitled Biochemical Actions of Hormones (Academica Press); He has edited (with David Kritchevsky) Actions of Hormones on Molecular Processes (Academic Press)

• 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