FIGURE 2.
Chemical structures of vitamin D-3 and vitamin D-2, and the hydroxylation of vitamin D-3 to 25-hydroxy vitamin D-3 and 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D-3 in the liver and in the kidney, respectively.
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