Background: The placental calcification is often considered as a physiologic aging process of the placenta but it may be accompanied with the altered levels of vitamin D (vit D). The aim of this study was to evaluate association between placental calcification and vit D in low risk pregnant women.  Materials and Methods: In a case-contro...

Highly biocompatible polylactic acid (PLA)-derived polymers are used for different biomedical applications such as orthopaedic screws and drug delivery devices. Nevertheless their clinical use is limited by their proinflammatory characteristics. Vitamin E (α-tocopherol, Vit. E), a natural antioxidant and anti-inflammatory agent has been used to improve different biomaterials biostability [1], a...

objective: maternal hypovitaminosis d may impair fetal growth and cause adverse pregnancy outcomes including intrauterine growth restriction and neonatal low birth weight. the aim of this study is to evaluate the relationship between maternal vitamin d status and neonate’s birth weight. materials and methods: a cross-sectional, descriptive analytical study was carried out in the nursery ward of...

Objective: To evaluate ethanol effects to induced activation of caspsae-3, and to observe the protective effects of Vitamin C (vit-C) on ethanol-induced apoptotic neurodegeneration in rat cortical area of brain. Methodology: Administration of a single dose of ethanol in 7-d postnatal (P7) rats triggers activation of caspase-3 and widespread apoptotic neuronal death. Western blot analysis, cells...


 Purpose: To evaluate the impact of calcium and vitamin D (vit D) supplementation initiated at early pregnancy in high-risk women on reduction preeclampsia risk.
 Methods: This prospective cohort study involved 492 pregnant who had experienced pre-eclampsia or eclampsia their current (high risk) were either (1000 mg/day) as well vit (400 IU/day) none. All included received standard d...

We do not read an article that can make us change practice very often. “Vitamin D deficiency in children and adolescents submitted to hematopoietic stem cell transplantation” by Campos DJ from the Curitiba Pediatric Transplantation group is one of these articles.1 Although vitamin D deficiency has been the theme of many publications in the last few years,2 Brazilians would tend to disregard it ...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine the interaction effects of aerobic exercise training and vitamin D supplementation on indices of obesity and plasma lipid profiles in ovariectomized (OVX) rats. METHODS Forty female Wistar rats were divided into 5 groups: aerobic training (3 days/week for 8 weeks; AT; n = 8), aerobic training and vitamin D supplementation (OVX + AT + Vit D; n...