Vitamin A in Health and Disease

Rune Blomhoff

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 1994
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040191507
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Biochemistry in Medicine

This book is intended as a source of information for the many scientists who now enter the growing research field of vitamin A in health and disease, reviewing the epidemiological aspects related to vitamin A.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Series Introduction
• Preface
• Table of Contents
• Contributors
•  1 Introduction
•  2 Absorption Vitami n A
•  3 Rote of PerisïnysoidâS Stellate Celte in Vitamin A Storage
•  4 The Retinol-Binding Protein Superfamily
•  5 Dynamics and Control of Plasma Retinol
•  6 Retinoic Acid Homeostasis
•  7 Role of Nuclear Retinoic Acid Receptors in the Regulation of Gene Expression
•  8 The Retinoid X Receptors
•  9 Retinoylation of Proteins in Mammalian Cells
•  10 Role of Carotenoids in Antioxidant Defense
•  11 Role of Retinoids in Embryonic Development
•  12 Vitamin A in Lung Development and Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
•  13 Are Ethanol-Induced Birth Defects Caused by Functional Retinoic Acid Deficiency?
•  14 Role of Retinoids in Normal and Diseased Skin
•  15 Regulation of Epithelial Differentiation by Retinoids
•  16 Role of Retinoids in Normal Hematopoiesis and the Immune System
•  17 Retinoids and Acute Myeloid Leukemia
•  18 Retinoid isomerization Reactions in the Visual System
•  19 Vitamin A Functions in the
•  20 Vitamin A and Cancer
•  21 Vitamin A Deficiency
•  22 Teratogenicity of Vitamin A and Retinoids
•  23 Dietary Vitamin A Requirements
• Index