http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
xviii, 677 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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 †-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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.