Retinoids
"Retinoids" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A group of tetraterpenes, with four terpene units joined head-to-tail. Biologically active members of this class are used clinically in the treatment of severe cystic ACNE; PSORIASIS; and other disorders of keratinization.
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D012176
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.455.326.271.665.202.495 D02.455.426.392.368.367.379.249.700 D02.455.849.131.495 D23.767.261.700
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Retinoids" by people in Profiles.
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Conley SM, Cai X, Makkia R, Wu Y, Sparrow JR, Naash MI. Increased cone sensitivity to ABCA4 deficiency provides insight into macular vision loss in Stargardt's dystrophy. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2012 Jul; 1822(7):1169-79.
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Kanan Y, Kasus-Jacobi A, Moiseyev G, Sawyer K, Ma JX, Al-Ubaidi MR. Retinoid processing in cone and Müller cell lines. Exp Eye Res. 2008 Feb; 86(2):344-54.
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Qtaishat NM, Okajima TI, Li S, Naash MI, Pepperberg DR. Retinoid kinetics in eye tissues of VPP transgenic mice and their normal littermates. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 1999 May; 40(6):1040-9.