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The last issue of the year for Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences is now published online.  This issue includes a collection of articles looking at the issues surrounding potential increase of vitamin D status to provide better health.  Read the Editorial by Guest Editor Vivienne Reeve here.

The front cover of this issue features work by Pameli Datta and colleagues from Cophagen University Hospital, Lillebaelt Hospital and the Danish Meteorological Institute, Denmark.  The authors compared the doses of natural solar ultraviolet radiation (UVR) and artificial UVR needed to increase serum 25-hydroxyvitamin-D3.  The team found that artificial UVR was estimated to be at least eight times more effective in inducing 25-hydroxyvitamin-D3 synthesis than solar UVR.

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Increase in serum 25-hydroxyvitamin-D3 in humans after solar exposure under natural conditions compared to artificial UVB exposure of hands and face, Pameli Datta, Morten Karsten Bogh, Peter Olsen, Pia Eriksen, Anne Vibeke Schmedes, Mette Marie-Louise Grage, Peter Alshede Philipsen and Hans Christian Wulf, Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2012, 11, 1817-1824

You may also be interested to read these articles on vitamin D – free to access for 3 weeks:

Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin-D responses to multiple UV exposures from solaria: inferences for exposure to sunlight, Richard McKenzie, Robert Scragg, Ben Liley, Paul Johnston, John Wishart, Alistair Stewart and Roshani Prematunga, Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2012, 11, 1174-1185

A computational model for previtamin D3 production in skin, Merve Meinhardt-Wollweber and Ronald Krebs, Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2012, 11, 731-737

Vitamin D-fence, Katie M. Dixon,  Vanessa B. Sequeira,  Aaron J. Camp and Rebecca S. Mason, Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 564-570

Is the action spectrum for the UV-induced production of previtamin D₃ in human skin correct?, Mary Norval, Lars Olof Björn and Frank R. de Gruijl, Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 11-17

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