Vitamin E and D regulation of allergic asthma immunopathogenesis.

Authors :: Cook-Mills JM
Avila PC
Source :: International immunopharmacology [Int Immunopharmacol] 2014 Nov; Vol. 23 (1), pp. 364-72. Date of Electronic Publication: 2014 Aug 29.
Publication Year :: 2014
Abstract: Asthma occurs as complex interactions of the environmental and genetics. Clinical studies and animal models of asthma indicate dietary factors such as vitamin E and vitamin D as protective for asthma risk. In this review, we discuss opposing regulatory functions of tocopherol isoforms of vitamin E and regulatory functions of vitamin D in asthma and how the variation in global prevalence of asthma may be explained, at least in part, by these dietary components.<br /> (Copyright © 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)