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Vitamin D3 deficient (D−) mice show a depressed inflammatory response and both inflammatory peritoneal macrophages and bone marrow polymorphonuclear leukocytes of D− mice exhibit a decreased spontaneous migration under agarose. The impaired phagocytic response of peritoneal macrophages from D− mice can be corrected by incubation with 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 and is not affected by interaction with other vitamin D3 metabolites. Transfer of mice from the D− to the D+ state results in correction of both the inflammatory and the phagocytic response. Intactness of phagocyte function is thus directly dependent on vitamin D3 metabolism.
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Bar-Shavit, Z., Noff, D., Edelstein, S. et al. 1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 and the regulation of macrophage function. Calcif Tissue Int 33, 673–676 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02409507
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