The Biochemistry of Retinoid Signaling II The Physiology of Vitamin A - Uptake, Transport, Metabolism and Signaling /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Asson-Batres, Mary Ann (Editor), Rochette-Egly, Cecile (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Subcellular Biochemistry, 81
• Subjects: Medicine.; Gene expression.; Nutrition.; Biochemistry.; Plant biochemistry.; Proteins.; Systems biology.; Biomedicine.; Gene Expression.; Animal Biochemistry.; Protein Science.; Plant Biochemistry.; Systems Biology.

The role of vitamin A in living organisms has been known throughout human history. In the last 100 years, the biochemical nature of vitamin A and its active derivative, retinoic acid, its physiological impact on growth processes, and the essential details of its mechanism of action have been reveale...