title: Calcidiol in human milk. The effect of prohormone on vitamin D status of breast fed unsupplemented infants.
abstract: Vitamin D, free or sulfoconjugated, and calcidiol (25(OH)vitamin D) levels were measured by competitive binding assay in breast milk samples of nursing mothers. Vitamin D status of their unsupplemented breast fed infants was determined. A strong correlation was established during the first month of the infant life only between calcidiol mother milk content and breast-fed infant serum. Calcidiol seems to be the vitamin D derivative mainly responsible for the maintainance of the vitamin D status of the newborn infant.
mesh_terms: D015650:24,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D 3; D015652:25-Hydroxyvitamin D 2; D001942:Breast Feeding; D002117:Calcitriol / Q000097:blood / Q000378:metabolism; D004100:Dihydroxycholecalciferols / Q000378:metabolism; D004872:Ergocalciferols / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000378:metabolism; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn / Q000502:physiology*; D007774:Lactation; D008895:Milk, Human / Q000378:metabolism*; D011247:Pregnancy
chemical_list: D004100:Dihydroxycholecalciferols; D004872:Ergocalciferols; D015652:25-Hydroxyvitamin D 2; D015650:24,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D 3; D002117:Calcitriol