Vitamin D status contributes to the antimicrobial activity of macrophages against Mycobacterium leprae.
BACKGROUND:The immune system depends on effector pathways to eliminate invading pathogens from the host in vivo. Macrophages (MΦ) of the innate immune system are armed with vitamin D-dependent antimicrobial responses to kill intracellular microbes. However, how the physiological levels of vitamin D...
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Public Library of Science (PLoS),
2018-07-01T00:00:00Z.
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