Vitamin D Conversion by Sarcoid Lymph Node Homogenate
- 1 January 1984
- journal article
- case report
- Published by American College of Physicians in Annals of Internal Medicine
- Vol. 100 (1) , 59-61
- https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-100-1-59
Abstract
Recent studies suggest that hypercalcemia of sarcoidosis is due to high blood concentrations of calcitriol and that this compound may be synthesized at an extra-renal site. We report that sarcoid lymph node homogenate metabolized calcifediol to a substance indistinguishable from calcitriol, whereas six nonsarcoid lymph nodes failed to produce this compound.Keywords
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