Research Progress of Vitamin K2 Related Signal Pathways: A Literature Review

Abstract: Vitamin K2 products were first applied to Japanese children, which can promote the growth of children's bones and eliminate their growing pain. At the same time, it does little harm to the human body, so it has attracted the attention of some scholars. Later, it was also proved to be effective in treating osteoporosis, especially for postmenopausal women. After years of research, some capabilities of VK2 have been discovered; it has been proved that it has great clinical value in treating osteoporosis, reducing intimal lipid deposition, diabetes, tumor, immune diseases, nervous system diseases and other diseases. There is no doubt that VK2 is an essential nutrient for human health, once vitamin K2 is deficient, it will cause a series of diseases. In recent years, some new evidences show that VK2 can also be used in leukemia and other diseases, which shows that VK2 still has great development potential. As a new adjuvant drug, VK2 has attracted worldwide attention and has been used in the clinic for many years. In this article, we mainly summarized the related research of VK2 in recent years, and expounded on several VK2-related signal pathways and the related mechanisms of these signal pathways in treating various diseases.