PRODUCTION OF 1,25-DIHYDROXYVITAMIN-D3 BY PULMONARY ALVEOLAR MACROPHAGES FROM PATIENTS WITH SARCOIDOSIS
PRODUCTION OF 1,25-DIHYDROXYVITAMIN-D3 BY PULMONARY ALVEOLAR MACROPHAGES FROM PATIENTS WITH SARCOIDOSIS
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1749-6632.1986.tb18535.x
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发表时间:
1986-06-06
影响因子:
5.2
通讯作者:
SHARMA, OP
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作者:
ADAMS, JS;GACAD, MA;SHARMA, OP
In 1954 Henneman et aI.'were the first to suggest that the hypercalcemic/hypercalciuric disturbance in sarcoidosis was related to the endogenous overproduction of vitamin D. Their postulate was supported by data on calcium balance that showed intestinal calcium hyperabsorption,'S2 and by historical evidence that showed exacerbation of hypercalcemia or hypercalciuria during summer months, when skin is exposed to more ultraviolet light: in patients with sarcoidosis. The observation that patients with sarcoidosis were susceptible to the development of hypercalcemia during treatment with vitamin D, 4 however, prompted Anderson et a/.* and other investigators'-'to propose that sensitivity to vitamin D in sarcoidosis was abnormal. The notion that the calcium metabolic disturbance in sarcoidosis resulted from increased end-organ sensitivity to vitamin D persisted until it was recognized that serum levels of 1, 25-dihydroxyvitamin D (1, 25-(OH),-D), the active form of the sterol hormone, were elevated in some sarcoidosis patients with hypercalciuria and/or hyper-~ alcemia.~~~ More recently, an elevated serum concentration of 1, 25-(OH),-D, a metabolite synthesized solely in the kidney in normal, nonpregnant human subjects," was reported in a hypercalcemic, anephric male patient with sarcoidosis." These data support the original postulate of Henneman et al. that the hypercalcemia of sarcoidosis is indeed a form of vitamin D intoxication and further suggest that the source of hormone exists at an extrarenal site. The experiments described in the present report point to the pulmonary alveolar macrophage (PAM) in patients with sarcoidosis as the synthetic source of an active vitamin D sterol in this disease and characterize the metabolite as 1, 25-(OH),-D,.