Vitamins and the Immune System

1. Vitamin D Regulation of Immune Function Daniel D Bikle, MD, PhD 2. Vitamin D and innate and adaptive immunity Martin Hewison, PhD 3. Dendritic Cells Modified by Vitamin D: Future Immunotherapy for Autoimmune Diseases Ayako Wakatsuki Pedersen, Mogens Helweg Claesson and Mai-Britt Zocca 4. Retinoic Acid, Immunity, and Inflammation Chang H. Kim 5. Vitamin A and retinoic acid in the regulation of B cell development and antibody production A. Catharine Ross, Qiuyan Chen and Yifan Ma 6. Retinoic Acid Production By Intestinal Dendritic Cells Makoto Iwata and Aya Yokota 7. Immune Regulator Vitamin A And T Cell Death Nikolai Engedal 8. Vitamin E And Immunity Didem Pekmezci 9. Vitamin D effects on lung immunity and Respiratory diseases Sif Hansdottir MD, MS and Martha M. Monick PhD 10. Maternal Vitamin D During Pregnancy And Its Relation To Immune-Mediated Diseases In The Offspring Erkkola M, Nwaru BI and Viljakainen HT 11. Vitamin D Deficiency And Connective Tissue Disease Eva Zold, Zsolt Barta, Edit Bodolay 12. Key Roles Of Vitamin A, C, And E In Aflatoxin B1 Induced Oxidative Stress Lokman Alpsoy and Mehmet Emir Yalvac 13. Vitamin D, Vitamin D Receptor And Cathelicidin In The Treatment Of Tuberculosis P. Selvaraj 14. Vitamin D endocrine system and the immune response in rheumatic diseases Maurizio Cutolo, M. Plebani, Yehuda Shoenfeld, Luciano Adorini, Angela Tincani 15. L-carnitine and Intestinal Inflammation Geneviève Fortin 16. Vitamin D And Inflammatory Bowel Disease Sandro Ardizzone, Andrea Cassinotti, Maurizio Bevilacqua, Mario Clerici and Gabriele Bianchi Porro 17. Vitamin D deficiency and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a vicious circle Wim Janssens, Chantal Mathieu, Steven Boonen and Marc Decramer 18. Vitamin D as a T cell modulator in multiple sclerosis Joost Smolders and Jan Damoiseaux 19. Vitamin D in Solid Organ Transplantation with Special Emphasis on Kidney Transplantation Ursula Thiem and Kyra Borchhardt

Dr. Gerald Litwack obtained M.S. and PhD degrees from the University of Wisconsin Department of Biochemistry and remained there for a brief time as a Lecturer on Enzymes. Then he entered the Biochemical Institute of the Sorbonne as a Fellow of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. He next moved to Rutgers University as an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and later as Associate Professor of biochemistry at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Medicine. After four years he moved to the Temple University School of Medicine as Professor of Biochemistry and Deputy Director of the Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology, soon after, becoming the Laura H. Carnell Professor. Subsequently he was appointed chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at the Jefferson Medical College as well as Vice Dean for Research and Deputy Director of the Jefferson Cancer Institute and Director of the Institute for Apoptosis. Following the move of his family, he became a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Biological Chemistry of the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and then became the Founding Chair of the Department of Basic Sciences at the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, becoming Professor of Molecular and Cellular Medicine and Associate Director of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the Texas A&M Health Science Center as his final position. During his career he was a visiting scientist at the University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley, Courtauld Institute of Biochemistry, London and the Wistar Institute. He was appointed Emeritus Professor and/or Chair at Rutgers University, Thomas Jefferson University and the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. He has published more than 300 scientific papers, authored three textbooks and edited more than sixty-five books. Currently he lives with his family and continues his authorship and editorial work in Los Angeles.