Oral administration of an active form of vitamin D3 (calcitriol) decreases atherosclerosis in mice by inducing regulatory T cells and immature dendritic cells with tolerogenic functions.
Takeda
Masafumi
M
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan.
Yamashita
Tomoya
T
Sasaki
Naoto
N
Nakajima
Kenji
K
Kita
Tomoyuki
T
Shinohara
Masakazu
M
Ishida
Tatsuro
T
Hirata
Ken-ichi
K