Vitamin A in health and disease / 
edited by Rune Blomhoff. 
 - xviii, 677 pages :  illustrations, map ;  24 cm. 
 - Antioxidants in health and disease ;  1 .
 - Antioxidants in health and disease ;  1. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0824791207 9780824791209 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>93046009 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Vitamin A--Physiological effect<br/>Vitamin A in human nutrition<br/>Vitamin A--Physiology.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QP772.V5  / V56 1994 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>612.399