"Ergocalciferols" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Derivatives of ERGOSTEROL formed by ULTRAVIOLET RAYS breaking of the C9-C10 bond. They differ from CHOLECALCIFEROL in having a double bond between C22 and C23 and a methyl group at C24.
| Descriptor ID |
D004872
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D04.210.500.247.222.474 D04.210.500.247.808.412 D04.210.500.812.768.462 D10.570.938.439
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| Concept/Terms |
Vitamin D 2- Vitamin D 2
- Vitamin D2
- D2, Vitamin
- Ergocalciferol
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Ergocalciferols" by people in Profiles.
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Increasing use of vitamin D supplementation in the chronic renal insufficiency cohort study. J Ren Nutr. 2014 May; 24(3):186-93.
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Treatment of vitamin D deficiency within a large integrated health care delivery system. J Manag Care Pharm. 2012 Sep; 18(7):497-505.
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Vitamin D supplementation and recombinant human erythropoietin utilization in vitamin D-deficient hemodialysis patients. J Nephrol. 2011 Jan-Feb; 24(1):98-105.
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Circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels and frailty status in older women. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2010 Dec; 95(12):5266-73.
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Kidney bone disease and mortality in CKD: revisiting the role of vitamin D, calcimimetics, alkaline phosphatase, and minerals. Kidney Int Suppl. 2010 Aug; (117):S10-21.
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Effect of ergocalciferol supplementation on serum parathyroid hormone and serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D in chronic kidney disease. Nephrology (Carlton). 2006 Dec; 11(6):555-9.