Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D and adipose tissue vitamin D receptor gene expression: relationship with obesity and type 2

Mercedes Clemente-Postigo1, Araceli Muñoz-Garach, Marta Serrano

  • 1Unidad de Gestión Clínica Endocrinología y Nutrición (M.C.-P., A.M.-G., L.G.-S., D.F.-G., D.C.-C., F.C., F.J.T., M.M.-G.), Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga (IBIMA), Complejo Hospitalario de Málaga (Virgen de la Victoria)/Universidad de Málaga, 29010 Málaga, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica En Red, Pathophysiology of Obesity and Nutrition (CB06/03) (M.C.-P., L.G.-S., D.F.-G., A.C., J.M.F.-R., F.C., F.J.T., M.M.-G.), 28029, Madrid, Spain; Service of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Nutrition (M.S., N.G., J.M.F.-R.), Institut d'Investigació Biomédica de Girona, 17007 Girona, Spain; Biomedical Research Laboratory (M.R.B.-L.), Internal Medicine Department, IBIMA, Regional University Hospital of Malaga (Carlos Haya Hospital), Universidad de Málaga, 29010 Málaga, Spain; Área del Corazón del Complejo Hospitalario de Málaga (Virgen de la Victoria) (I.M.-S.), IBIMA/Universidad de Malaga, Red de Investigación Cardiovascular, 29010 Málaga, Spain; and Lipid and Atherosclerosis Research Unit (IMIBIC) (A.C.), Reina Sofia University Hospital, University of Cordoba, 14004 Cordoba, Spain.

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