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<Articles JournalTitle="Iranian Journal of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology">
  <Article>
    <Journal>
      <PublisherName>Tehran University of Medical Sciences</PublisherName>
      <JournalTitle>Iranian Journal of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology</JournalTitle>
      <Issn>1735-1502</Issn>
      <Volume>24</Volume>
      <Issue>4</Issue>
      <PubDate PubStatus="epublish">
        <Year>2025</Year>
        <Month>06</Month>
        <Day>26</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </Journal>
    <title locale="en_US">High-dose Vitamin D Supplementation Attenuates NLRP3 Inflammasome-mediated Oxidative Stress in a Novel Murine Model of Comorbid Asthma  and Osteoporosis Induced by Vitamin D Deficiency</title>
    <FirstPage>551</FirstPage>
    <LastPage>562</LastPage>
    <AuthorList>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Pengtao</FirstName>
        <LastName>Song</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Pathology, Huzhou Central Hospital, Fifth School of Clinical Medicine of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Affiliated Central Hospital of Huzhou University, Huzhou, China</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Wei</FirstName>
        <LastName>Mao</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Respiratory and Critical Medicine, Huzhou Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Affiliated to Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Huzhou, China</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Yinan</FirstName>
        <LastName>Chen</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Respiratory Medicine, Huzhou Central Hospital, Fifth School of Clinical Medicine of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Huzhou Central Hospital, Affiliated Central Hospital of Huzhou University, Huzhou, China</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Zhicong</FirstName>
        <LastName>Liu</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Respiratory Medicine, Huzhou Central Hospital, Fifth School of Clinical Medicine of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Huzhou Central Hospital, Affiliated Central Hospital of Huzhou University, Huzhou, China</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Yi</FirstName>
        <LastName>Chen</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Respiratory Medicine, Huzhou Central Hospital, Fifth School of Clinical Medicine of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Huzhou Central Hospital, Affiliated Central Hospital of Huzhou University, Huzhou, China</affiliation>
      </Author>
    </AuthorList>
    <History>
      <PubDate PubStatus="received">
        <Year>2025</Year>
        <Month>02</Month>
        <Day>10</Day>
      </PubDate>
      <PubDate PubStatus="accepted">
        <Year>2025</Year>
        <Month>03</Month>
        <Day>14</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </History>
    <abstract locale="en_US">While vitamin D deficiency (VDD) is implicated in both asthma and osteoporosis, the synergistic mechanisms linking these comorbidities remain unexplored. This study introduces a novel murine model of VDD-induced concurrent asthma and osteoporosis, uniquely addressing their bidirectional exacerbation through NLR family pyrin domain containing 3 (NLRP3) inflammasome activation and oxidative stress crosstalk.
Female C57 mice were stratified into control, bronchial asthma (BA), osteoporosis (OP), BA+OP, and VDD+BA+OP groups, with therapeutic evaluation of low-dose (LD) and high-dose (HD) vitamin D supplementation.
Unlike prior studies, our results demonstrate that VDD amplifies airway resistance and&#xA0;bone microstructural deterioration via NLRP3-driven pyroptosis (elevated cleaved caspase-1, N-terminal gasdermin D and suppressed antioxidant defenses (reduced glutathione peroxidase and catalase, and elevated malondialdehyde). Critically, HD supplementation reversed these effects more robustly than LD, restoring pulmonary compliance, trabecular integrity (bone volume/total volume: 0.0298 vs 0.0356 in VDD+BA+OP), and suppressing inflammasome activity. Mechanistically, we identify a feedforward loop wherein VDD-induced oxidative stress primes NLRP3 activation, which further exacerbates inflammation and bone resorption&#x2014;a pathway uniquely mitigated by HD vitamin D.
These findings provide the first evidence of HD vitamin D&#x2019;s dual therapeutic efficacy in&#xA0;comorbid asthma-osteoporosis, offering a paradigm shift in targeting the NLRP3/oxidative stress axis for managing multifactorial inflammatory diseases.</abstract>
    <web_url>https://ijaai.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijaai/article/view/4339</web_url>
    <pdf_url>https://ijaai.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijaai/article/download/4339/2193</pdf_url>
  </Article>
</Articles>
