© 2002 by European Society of Cardiology
Copyright © 2002, European Society of Cardiology
Vitamin D ingestion and changes to rat aorta
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Mount Sinai Hospital, 600 University Ave., and Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1X5
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Received 14 August 2002; accepted 26 August 2002
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The recent paper by Norman et al. [1] raises alarming issues about the effect of vitamin D in rats. Several points warrant comment or clarification from the authors.
The methods section specifies that 1,25(OH)2D was the form of vitamin D added to the rat diets [1], and this