1. Introduction to the themed issue ‘Vitamin D update’

   • Vivienne Reeve

   Editorial 01 December 2012 Pages: 1787 - 1787

2. The current state of play of rodent models to study the role of vitamin D in UV-induced immunomodulation

   • Shelley Gorman
   • Prue H. Hart

   Perspective 01 December 2012 Pages: 1788 - 1796

3. Vitamin D and drug-metabolising enzymes

   • Jonatan D. Lindh
   • Linda Björkhem-Bergman
   • Erik Eliasson

   Perspective 01 December 2012 Pages: 1797 - 1801

4. Vitamin D content of food and its contribution to vitamin D status: a brief overview and Australian focus

   • Jerry Liu

   Perspective 01 December 2012 Pages: 1802 - 1807

5. Protective actions of vitamin D in UVB induced skin cancer

   • Daniel D. Bikle

   Perspective 01 December 2012 Pages: 1808 - 1816

6. Increase in serum 25-hydroxyvitamin-D₃ in humans after solar exposure under natural conditions compared to artificial UVB exposure of hands and face

   • Pameli Datta
   • Morten Karsten Bogh
   • Hans Christian Wulf

   Paper 01 December 2012 Pages: 1817 - 1824

7. Differential photoprotective effects of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 and a low calcaemic deltanoid

   • Katie M. Dixon
   • Vanessa B. Sequeira
   • Rebecca S. Mason

   Paper 01 December 2012 Pages: 1825 - 1830

8. Patients with polymorphic light eruption have decreased serum levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin-D₃ that increase upon 311 nm UVB photohardening

   • Alexandra Gruber-Wackernagel
   • Barbara Obermayer-Pietsch
   • Peter Wolf

   Paper 01 December 2012 Pages: 1831 - 1836

9. 1α,25 Dihydroxyvitamin D₃ enhances cellular defences against UV-induced oxidative and other forms of DNA damage in skin

   • Clare Gordon-Thomson
   • Ritu Gupta
   • Rebecca S. Mason

   Paper 01 December 2012 Pages: 1837 - 1847

10. The effects of a mid-winter 8-week course of sub-sunburn sunbed exposures on tanning, vitamin D status and colds

    • Frank R. de Gruijl
    • Stan Pavel

    Paper 01 December 2012 Pages: 1848 - 1854

11. Influence of high levels of cloud cover on vitamin D effective and erythemal solar UV irradiances

    • Alfio V. Parisi
    • David J. Turnbull
    • Nathan J. Downs

    Paper 01 December 2012 Pages: 1855 - 1859

12. A theoretical study of thionine: spin—orbit coupling and intersystem crossing

    • Angela Rodriguez-Serrano
    • Vidisha Rai-Constapel
    • Christel M. Marian

    Paper 01 December 2012 Pages: 1860 - 1867

13. Probing the adverse temperature dependence in the static fluorescence quenching of BSA induced by a novel anticancer hydrazone

    • Jin-Qiang Tong
    • Fang-Fang Tian
    • Feng-Lei Jiang

    Paper 01 December 2012 Pages: 1868 - 1879

14. Photodegradation of E2 in the presence of natural montmorillonite and the iron complexing agent ethylenediamine-N,N′-disuccinic acid

    • Jing Li
    • Gilles Mailhot
    • Nansheng Deng

    OriginalPaper 01 December 2012 Pages: 1880 - 1885

15. Photoinduced protein modifications by methylene blue and naproxen

    • Giuseppina Bracchitta
    • Alfio Catalfo
    • Guido De Guidi

    Paper 01 December 2012 Pages: 1886 - 1896

16. Spectroscopic studies on the photochemical decarboxylation mechanisms of synthetic pyrethroids

    • Yusuke Suzuki
    • Shoji Ishizaka
    • Noboru Kitamura

    Paper 01 December 2012 Pages: 1897 - 1904

17. Comparative photodynamic inactivation of antibiotic resistant bacteria by first and second generation cationic photosensitizers

    • Dora C. S. Costa
    • Maria C. Gomes
    • João P. C. Tomé

    Paper 01 December 2012 Pages: 1905 - 1913

18. Studies of the solvatochromic emission properties of N-aroylurea derivatives II: influence of hydrogen-bonding interactions

    • Anna Bergen
    • Cornelia Bohne
    • Elmar Neumann

    Paper 01 December 2012 Pages: 1914 - 1928

19. Solid-state photochemistry of crystalline pyrazolines: reliable generation and reactivity control of 1,3-biradicals and their potential for the green chemistry synthesis of substituted cyclopropanes

    • Saori Shiraki
    • Cortnie S. Vogelsberg
    • Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay

    Paper 01 December 2012 Pages: 1929 - 1937

20. The interplay between hydrogen bonding and π-π stacking interactions in the crystal packing of N1-thyminyl derivatives, and implications for the photo-chemical [2π + 2π]-cycloaddition of thyminyl compounds

    • Priscilla Johnston
    • Ekaterina I. Izgorodina
    • Kei Saito

    Paper 01 December 2012 Pages: 1938 - 1951

21. Correction to: Photoinduced formation of reversible dye radicals and their impact on super-resolution imaging

    • Sebastian van de Linde
    • Ivan Krstić
    • Markus Sauer

    Correction 01 December 2012 Pages: 1952 - 1952

22. Correction to: Human erythema and matrix metalloproteinase-1 mRNA induction, in vivo, share an action spectrum which suggests common chromophores

    • Angela Tewari
    • Christine Lahmann
    • Antony R. Young

    Correction 01 December 2012 Pages: 1953 - 1953