Since vitamin D is known to repress renin gene transcription ... Streptozotocin was used to induce diabetes in 8-week-old mice. At 2 weeks after streptozotocin injection, mice were randomly ...

The fact that they did not observe this effect in mice with deficiencies in other immunity-related genes that underwent the same treatments validated Gc as the protein linking vitamin D metabolism ...

Mice with low vitamin D had exaggerated craving for opioids and felt the drugs’ effects more strongly—results supported in part by human medical records—suggesting that supplements should be explored ...

Researchers fed four different diets with similar macronutrient content to four genetically diverse groups of mice. The diets ... single nutrients like vitamin D are measured with supplement ...