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What vitamin influences the rate at which the kidneys excrete calcium?
Vitamin D
What role do the kidneys play in vitamin d function?
Activating intestinally absorbed vitamin D
Do the kidneys convert vitamin D to its inactive or active form?
yes
What is health effect of vitamin d?
When Vitamin D is synthesized in the kidneys, it helps regulate the health of your bones through calcium and phosphate mineralization. Vitamin D will help prevent rickets, and frail bones.
Does the liver synthesize vitamin D?
The skin, liver, and kidneys participate in synthesizing the active form of vitamin D.
What organ produces vitamin d and k?
Vitamin B12, Vitamin D, and Vitamin K are all vitamins that the liver stores. If you were to take too much of Vitamin B12, it would be filtered through your liver (whole holding onto some), then through your kidneys to be urinated out.
What vitamin is released by kidneys?
the active form of Vitamin D in the form of 1,25-dihydrocholecaciferol is released from the kidney.written by robal lacoul, hope it would provide some help
What two vitamins can your body make?
Vitamins are organic substances that can't be made by the body, so they have to be eaten. Exceptions to this are vitamin D, vitamin K, biotin, and folic acid. These vitamins are present in certain foods, but our bodies have other ways of obtaining them. skin and kidneys are involved in making vitamin D, and that good-guy bacteria in the intestines make vitamin K. Bacteria in the intestine also manufacture biotin and folic acid.
How is vitamin D utilized?
NOVA NET ANSWER-------- calcium and phosphorus Vitamin D is absorbed in the gut, then travels to the skin, where it is converted by UV rays (from the sun) to Vitamin D3. From here, it is converted in the kidneys to calcitriol (or 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol), which is the biologically active form of the Vitamin. From here, it goes back to the intestine and assists in absorption of Calcium from the diet.
What vitamin is synthesized in the skin with exposure to the sunlight?
Vitamin D is produced by ultraviolet radiation on your skin. The UV light converts a precursor molecule to vitamin D.
What leads to formation of calcium deposits in the blood vessels and kidney?
can you get calcium deposits in your kidneys
What about vitamin - D?
Vitamin D (disambiguation).
