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Novel regulators of vitamin D action and metabolism: Lessons learned at the Los Angeles zoo
6 Jan 2003
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We undertook an investigation of an outbreak of rachitic bone disease in the Emperor Tamarin New World primate colony at the Los Angeles Zoo in the mid-1980s. The disease phenotype resembled that observed in humans with an inactivating mutation of the vitamin D receptor (VDR), hypocalcemia, high 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D (1,25-(OH)(2)D) levels, and rickets in rapidly growing adolescent primates. In contrast to the...
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