Table of Contents
Frontmatter — FOREWORD — Official Sponsors and Donors — YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARDEES NINTH WORKSHOP ON VITAMIN D — Vitamin D Workshop. Career Recognition Awardees — Contents — Chemistry of Vitamin D — Shape and Conformation of Vitamin D. 11-Fluoro-1a-Hydroxyvitamin D3: The Quest for Experimental Evidence of the Folded Vitamin D Conformation — Conformation and Related Topological Features of Vitamin D: Structure-Function Relationships — Chemical Conversion of Vitamin D3 to Calcitriol Lactone — Design, Synthesis, and SAR of Some 1-Substituted A-Ring Analogs of Calcitriol — A General Synthetic Route to A-Ring Hydroxylated Vitamin D Analogs from D-Pentoses — Retiferols. Design and Synthesis of the New Class of Vitamin D Analogs — Introduction of 1a-Hydroxyl Group to Provitamin D Causes New Photoisomerization Reactions — Synthesis and Determination of the Configurations of the 23-Hydroxylated Metabolites of Calcipotriol (MC 903) and their Epimers — Syntheses of Potential Inhibitors of 25-Hydroxyvitamin D3-1a-Hydroxylase: A-Ring Analogs — Metallic Complexes of Hydroxylated Derivatives of Vitamin D3 — A New Route to the Lythgoe-Roche's A-Ring Precursor of 1a,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 — Structure-Activity Studies of Fluorinated Vitamin D Analogs — An In Vitro Model of Previtamin D Photosynthesis as Possible Monitor of Ozone Depletion — Synthesis of 24-Hydroxy-Vitamin D Analogues — Chromatographic Isolation and Spectroscopic Characterization of the Photoisomers of 1a,25-Dihydroxy-Provitamin D3 — A New Route to the Vitamin D Triene System — Studies on the Synthesis of 19-Norprevitamin D3 Analogues — Structure/Function Studies of Vitamin D Steroids — The Need for New Vitamin D Analogues: Mechanisms of Action and Clinical Applications — Future Prospects for Vitamin D Analogs — Chemistry and Biology of 22,23-yne Analogs of Calcitriol — Chemistry and Biology of 23-oxa-aro- and 23-thia-aro-Vitamin D Analogues with High Antiproliferative and Low Calcemic Activity — Activity of Vitamin D Analogs in Co-Transfected COS-7 Cells — Synthesis and Biological Character of 1δ-Hydroxylated Vitamin D3 Analogs — Biological Activity and Conformational Analysis of 1α,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 and its Analogues — Topological Mimics of the 6-s-cis-Conformer of 1a,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 Based on the Provitamin D Skeleton — Chemistry and Biology of Highly Active 22-oxy Analogs of 20-epi Calcitriol with Very Low Binding Affinity to the Vitamin D Recepto — New Discoveries in Vitamin D Related Compounds — Modelling of Previtamin D Photosynthesis in View of its Conformational Flexibility — Active Vitamin D Analogs with Side Chain Hydroxyl Group Occupying Diverse Spatial Region — Synthesis and Biological Activity of 23-oxa Vitamin D Analogues — Synthesis and Biological Activity of 20-Hydroxylated Vitamin D Analogues — 20-Methyl Vitamin D Analogues — 2δ-Substituted Calcitriols and Other A-Ring Substituted Analogues - Synthesis and Biological Results — Syntheses and Biological Activity of 1ß-Substituted Active Vitamin D3 Analogs — Vitamin D Binding Protein — Probing the Vitamin D-Sterol Binding Domain of Human Vitamin D-Binding Protein: Chemical Modification of Specific Amino Acid Residues — Crystallization and Preliminary X-Ray Investigation of Vitamin D-Binding Protein from Human Serum — Effects of Vitamin D-Binding Proteins on Biological Functions of 1 a,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 Analogues — Vitamin D Hydroxylases: Biochemistry and Regulation — Differences of the Regulation of 24-Hydroxylase Gene Expression in the Kidney and Intestine — Regulation of the Ferredoxin Component of Renal Hydroxylases at the Transcriptional and Postradiational Level and of the Protein Inhibitor of Cyclic AMP-Dependent Kinase — Site and Rate of Hydroxylation of 1a-OH-D3 Analogs by CYP27 Not Altered by Increasing Length or Changing Orientation of Vitamin D3 Side Chain — Protein Kinase C Up-Regulates 1 a,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3-Induced Expression of
