Calcitriol prevents inflammatory gene expression in macrovascular endothelial cells.

CONCLUSION: Calcitriol prevents inflammatory gene expression, but does not affect expression of angiogenic genes in endothelial cells, which suggest the potential use of calcitriol to prevent endothelial activation through the downregulation of IL-1β and HBD-2. PMID: 27181168 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27181168?dopt=Abstract

Source: British Journal of Biomedical Science - May 20, 2016 Category: Laboratory Medicine Tags: Br J Biomed Sci Source Type: research