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Vitamin A in health and disease / edited by Rune Blomhoff.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Antioxidants in health and disease ; 1.Publisher: New York : M. Dekker, [1994]Copyright date: ©1994Description: xviii, 677 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0824791207
  • 9780824791209
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 612.399 20
LOC classification:
  • QP772.V5 V56 1994
Contents:
Introduction: overview of vitamin A metabolism and function / Rune Blomhoff -- Metabolism of vitamin A -- Absorption of vitamin A / David E. Ong -- Role of perisinusoidal stellate cells in vitamin A storage / Kenjiro Wake -- Retinol-binding protein superfamily / Asipu Sivaprasadarao and John B.C. Findlay -- Dynamics and control of plasma retinol / Michael H. Green and Joanne Balmer Green -- Retinoic acid homeostasis: prospective role of [beta]-carotene, retinol, CRBP and CRABP / Joseph L. Napoli -- Mechanism of action of vitamin A and carotenoids -- Role of nuclear retinoic acid receptors in the regulation of gene expression / Philippe Kastner, Pierre Chambon and Mark Leid -- Retinoid X receptors: modulators of multiple hormonal signaling pathways / Steven A. Kliewer ... [et al.] -- Retinoylation of proteins in mammalian cells / Noriko Takahashi and Theodore R. Breitman -- Role of carotenoids in antioxidant defense / Wilhelm Stahl, Alfred R. Sundquist and Helmut Sies -- Embryonic development -- Role of retinoids in embryonic development / Malcolm Maden --
(cont) Vitamin A in lung development and bronchopulmonary dysplasia / Jayant P. Shenai -- Are ethanol-induced birth defects caused by functional retinoic acid deficiency? / Gregg Duester -- Skin and epithelial cells -- Role of retinoids in normal and diseased skin / Anders Vahlquist -- Regulation of epithelial differentiation by retinoids / Dean Rosenthal ... [et al.] -- Blood cells -- Role of retinoids in normal hematopoiesis and the immune system / Heidi Kiil Blomhoff and Erlend B. Smeland -- Retinoids and acute myeloid leukemia / Kaare R. Norum -- Vision -- Retinoid isomerization reactions in the visual system / Robert R. Rando -- Reproduction -- Vitamin A functions in the reproductive organs / Winnie Eskild and Vidar Hansson -- Intake and cancer incidence -- Vitamin A and cancer: epidemiological evidence in humans / David J. Hunter and Walter Wilett -- Deficiency and toxicity -- Vitamin A deficiency: its epidemiology and relation to child mortality and morbidity / Keith P. West, Jr. -- Teratogenicity of vitamin A and retinoids / Heinz Nau ... [et al.] --
(cont) Dietary vitamin A requirements / Donald S. McLaren.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: overview of vitamin A metabolism and function / Rune Blomhoff -- Metabolism of vitamin A -- Absorption of vitamin A / David E. Ong -- Role of perisinusoidal stellate cells in vitamin A storage / Kenjiro Wake -- Retinol-binding protein superfamily / Asipu Sivaprasadarao and John B.C. Findlay -- Dynamics and control of plasma retinol / Michael H. Green and Joanne Balmer Green -- Retinoic acid homeostasis: prospective role of [beta]-carotene, retinol, CRBP and CRABP / Joseph L. Napoli -- Mechanism of action of vitamin A and carotenoids -- Role of nuclear retinoic acid receptors in the regulation of gene expression / Philippe Kastner, Pierre Chambon and Mark Leid -- Retinoid X receptors: modulators of multiple hormonal signaling pathways / Steven A. Kliewer ... [et al.] -- Retinoylation of proteins in mammalian cells / Noriko Takahashi and Theodore R. Breitman -- Role of carotenoids in antioxidant defense / Wilhelm Stahl, Alfred R. Sundquist and Helmut Sies -- Embryonic development -- Role of retinoids in embryonic development / Malcolm Maden --

(cont) Vitamin A in lung development and bronchopulmonary dysplasia / Jayant P. Shenai -- Are ethanol-induced birth defects caused by functional retinoic acid deficiency? / Gregg Duester -- Skin and epithelial cells -- Role of retinoids in normal and diseased skin / Anders Vahlquist -- Regulation of epithelial differentiation by retinoids / Dean Rosenthal ... [et al.] -- Blood cells -- Role of retinoids in normal hematopoiesis and the immune system / Heidi Kiil Blomhoff and Erlend B. Smeland -- Retinoids and acute myeloid leukemia / Kaare R. Norum -- Vision -- Retinoid isomerization reactions in the visual system / Robert R. Rando -- Reproduction -- Vitamin A functions in the reproductive organs / Winnie Eskild and Vidar Hansson -- Intake and cancer incidence -- Vitamin A and cancer: epidemiological evidence in humans / David J. Hunter and Walter Wilett -- Deficiency and toxicity -- Vitamin A deficiency: its epidemiology and relation to child mortality and morbidity / Keith P. West, Jr. -- Teratogenicity of vitamin A and retinoids / Heinz Nau ... [et al.] --

(cont) Dietary vitamin A requirements / Donald S. McLaren.

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