Transport and metabolism of vitamin A
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...Both experimental and clinical studies have revealed that retinoids regulate a wide variety of essential biological processes, such as vertebrate embryonic morphogenesis and organogenesis, cell growth arrest, differentiation and apoptosis, and homeostasis, as well as their disorders (Sporn et al., 1976; Blomhoff, 1994; Sporn et al., 1994; Kastner et al., 1995; Chambon, 2005)....
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...…wide variety of essential biological processes, such as vertebrate embryonic morphogenesis and organogenesis, cell growth arrest, differentiation and apoptosis, and homeostasis, as well as their disorders (Sporn et al., 1976; Blomhoff, 1994; Sporn et al., 1994; Kastner et al., 1995; Chambon, 2005)....
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...predominantly stored in the liver (5, 6)....
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...In the liver, carotenoids accumulate in oil droplets in hepatocytes (Blomhoff 1994; Cooper 1997), and pro-vitamin A carotenoids are transported to hepatic stellate cells, where further retinol production and storage occurs (Shmarakov et al. 2010; von Lintig 2010)....
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