Dietary vitamin D3 deficiency exacerbates sinonasal inflammation and alters local 25(OH)D₃ metabolism

• Jennifer K. Mulligan ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: konopa@musc.edu

  Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0607-564X

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• Whitney N. Pasquini,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

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• William W. Carroll,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

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• Tucker Williamson,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

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• Nicholas Reaves,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

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• Kunal J. Patel,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Lee Patterson Allen Transplant Immunobiology Laboratory, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

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• Elliott Mappus,

  Roles Data curation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

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• Rodney J. Schlosser,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America, Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

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• Carl Atkinson

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Lee Patterson Allen Transplant Immunobiology Laboratory, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

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