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Overview

Margherita T. Cantorna is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research expertise spans medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a focus on several specific subfields including pathology and forensic medicine, nutrition and dietetics, immunology, molecular biology, and infectious diseases.

Their work primarily addresses topics related to vitamin D research studies, vitamin C and antioxidants research, COVID-19 clinical research studies, IL-33, ST2, and ILC pathways, immune cell function and interaction, retinoids in leukemia and cellular processes, as well as antioxidant activity and oxidative stress.

Cantorna has contributed to multiple scientific journals, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  • The Journal of Immunology
  • Nutrients
  • iScience
  • Nature reviews. Immunology

Significant recent papers include:

  • "Novel insight into the role of the vitamin D receptor in the development and function of the immune system," 2022, The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  • "CCL27 is a crucial regulator of immune homeostasis of the skin and mucosal tissues," 2022, iScience
  • "Vitamin D for COVID-19: where are we now?" 2022, Nature reviews. Immunology
  • "Two lineages of immune cells that differentially express the vitamin D receptor," 2023, The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  • "Vitamin D and the Ability to Produce 1,25(OH)2D Are Critical for Protection from Viral Infection of the Lungs," 2022, Nutrients

Their frequently collaborating coauthors include:

  • Juhi Arora
  • Veronika Weaver
  • Jinpeng Wang
  • Carlos Bernal-Mizrachi
  • Nicole E. Froelich

Best Publications

  • Vitamin D: its role and uses in immunology

    Hector F. Deluca;Margherita T. Cantorna

  • Vitamin D status, 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3, and the immune system

    Margherita T Cantorna;Yan Zhu;Monica Froicu;Anja Wittke

  • 1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 reversibly blocks the progression of relapsing encephalomyelitis, a model of multiple sclerosis

    Margherita T. Cantorna;Colleen E. Hayes;Hector F. Deluca

  • Expression of 1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 Receptor in the Immune System☆

    Christian M. Veldman;Margherita T. Cantorna;Hector F. DeLuca

  • Mounting Evidence for Vitamin D as an Environmental Factor Affecting Autoimmune Disease Prevalence

    Margherita T. Cantorna;Brett D. Mahon

  • 1,25-Dihydroxycholecalciferol Prevents and Ameliorates Symptoms of Experimental Murine Inflammatory Bowel Disease

    Margherita T. Cantorna;Carey Munsick;Candace Bemiss;Brett D. Mahon

  • THE TARGETS OF VITAMIN D DEPEND ON THE DIFFERENTIATION AND ACTIVATION STATUS OF CD4 POSITIVE T CELLS

    Brett D. Mahon;Anja Wittke;Veronika Weaver;Margherita T. Cantorna

  • Vitamin D and 1,25(OH)2D Regulation of T cells

    Margherita T. Cantorna;Lindsay Snyder;Yang Ding Lin;Linlin Yang

  • Vitamin D is required for ILC3 derived IL-22 and protection from Citrobacter rodentium infection

    Yang Ding Lin;Juhi Arora;Kevin Diehl;Stephanie A. Bora;Stephanie A. Bora

  • 1,25-Dihydroxycholecalciferol Inhibits the Progression of Arthritis in Murine Models of Human Arthritis

    Margherita T. Cantorna;Colleen E. Hayes;Hector F. DeLuca

  • A Crucial Role for the Vitamin D Receptor in Experimental Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

    Monica Froicu;Veronika Weaver;Thomas A. Wynn;Mary Ann McDowell

  • Vitamin D and its role in immunology: multiple sclerosis, and inflammatory bowel disease.

    Margherita T. Cantorna

  • Cytokine profile in patients with multiple sclerosis following vitamin D supplementation.

    B.D Mahon;S.A Gordon;J Cruz;F Cosman

  • Vitamin D Regulates the Gut Microbiome and Protects Mice from Dextran Sodium Sulfate-Induced Colitis

    Jot Hui Ooi;Yunfei Li;Connie J. Rogers;Margherita T. Cantorna

  • Vitamin D and multiple sclerosis.

    Colleen E. Hayes;Margherita T. Cantorna;Hector F. DeLuca

  • 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 is a positive regulator for the two anti-encephalitogenic cytokines TGF-beta 1 and IL-4.

    Margherita T. Cantorna;William D. Woodward;William D. Woodward;Colleen E. Hayes;Hector F. DeLuca

  • Calcium and 1α,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 target the TNF-α pathway to suppress experimental inflammatory bowel disease

    Yan Zhu;Brett D Mahon;Monica Froicu;Margherita T Cantorna

  • Vitamin D and the vitamin D receptor are critical for control of the innate immune response to colonic injury

    Monica Froicu;Margherita T Cantorna

  • In vitamin A deficiency multiple mechanisms establish a regulatory T helper cell imbalance with excess Th1 and insufficient Th2 function.

    Margherita T. Cantorna;Faye E. Nashold;Colleen E. Hayes

  • Vitamin D receptor-deficient mice fail to develop experimental allergic asthma.

    Anja Wittke;Veronika Weaver;Brett D. Mahon;Avery August

  • Vitamin D Regulates the Gut Microbiome and Protects Mice from Dextran Sodium

    Jot Hui Ooi;Yunfei Li;Connie J. Rogers;Margherita T. Cantorna

Frequent Co-Authors

Hector F. DeLuca
Hector F. DeLuca University of Wisconsin–Madison
Colleen E. Hayes
Colleen E. Hayes University of Wisconsin–Madison
Andrew D. Patterson
Andrew D. Patterson Pennsylvania State University
Avery August
Avery August Cornell University
Edward Balish
Edward Balish University of Wisconsin–Madison
Hans W. Sollinger
Hans W. Sollinger University of Wisconsin–Madison
Troy L. Ott
Troy L. Ott Pennsylvania State University
John P. Vanden Heuvel
John P. Vanden Heuvel Pennsylvania State University
Eric T. Harvill
Eric T. Harvill University of Georgia

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