 Vitamin A
"Vitamin A" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Retinol and derivatives of retinol that play an essential role in metabolic functioning of the retina, the growth of and differentiation of epithelial tissue, the growth of bone, reproduction, and the immune response. Dietary vitamin A is derived from a variety of CAROTENOIDS found in plants. It is enriched in the liver, egg yolks, and the fat component of dairy products.
| Descriptor ID |
D014801
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.455.326.271.665.202.495.818 D02.455.426.392.368.367.379.249.700.860 D02.455.849.131.495.818 D23.767.261.700.860
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| Concept/Terms |
Retinol- Retinol
- 3,7-dimethyl-9-(2,6,6-trimethyl-1-cyclohexen-1-yl)-2,4,6,8-nonatetraen-1-ol, (all-E)-Isomer
- All-Trans-Retinol
- All Trans Retinol
- Vitamin A1
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| 2005 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2007 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Vitamin A" by people in Profiles.
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Righton AL, St Leger JA, Schmitt T, Murray MJ, Adams L, Fascetti AJ. Serum vitamin A concentrations in captive sea otters (Enhydra lutris). J Zoo Wildl Med. 2011 Mar; 42(1):124-7.
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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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Kanan Y, Moiseyev G, Agarwal N, Ma JX, Al-Ubaidi MR. Light induces programmed cell death by activating multiple independent proteases in a cone photoreceptor cell line. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2007 Jan; 48(1):40-51.
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Fu Y, Zhong H, Wang MH, Luo DG, Liao HW, Maeda H, Hattar S, Frishman LJ, Yau KW. Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells detect light with a vitamin A-based photopigment, melanopsin. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 Jul 19; 102(29):10339-44.
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Murray M, Butler AM, Fiala-Beer E, Su GM. Phospho-STAT5 accumulation in nuclear fractions from vitamin A-deficient rat liver. FEBS Lett. 2005 Jul 04; 579(17):3669-73.
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