"Vitamin D" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A vitamin that includes both CHOLECALCIFEROLS and ERGOCALCIFEROLS, which have the common effect of preventing or curing RICKETS in animals. It can also be viewed as a hormone since it can be formed in SKIN by action of ULTRAVIOLET RAYS upon the precursors, 7-dehydrocholesterol and ERGOSTEROL, and acts on VITAMIN D RECEPTORS to regulate CALCIUM in opposition to PARATHYROID HORMONE.
| Descriptor ID |
D014807
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D04.808.812.768
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2008 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2009 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2010 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| 2011 | 6 | 2 | 8 |
| 2012 | 10 | 3 | 13 |
| 2013 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| 2014 | 7 | 1 | 8 |
| 2015 | 6 | 3 | 9 |
| 2016 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2017 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2018 | 9 | 0 | 9 |
| 2019 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2020 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2023 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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