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

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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Asson-Batres, Mary Ann (Editor ), Rochette-Egly, Cecile (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edición:1st ed. 2016.
Colección:Subcellular Biochemistry, 81
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface, Mary Ann Asson-Batres and Cecile Rochette-Egly
  • In Memorium
  • 1 Carotenoids and Retinoids: Nomenclature, Chemistry, and Analysis, Earl H. Harrison and Robert W. Curley, Jr
  • 2 Functions of Intracellular Retinoid Binding-Proteins, Joseph L. Napoli
  • 3 Vitamin A Transport and Cell Signaling by the Retinol-Binding Protein Receptor STRA6, Noa Noy
  • 4 Vitamin A Absorption, Storage and Mobilization, William S. Blaner, Yang Li, Jason J. Yuen, Seung-Ah Lee, and Robin D. Clugston
  • 5 Retinoic Acid Synthesis and Degradation, Natalia Y. Kedishvili
  • 6 Cellular Retinoic Acid Binding Proteins: Genomic and Non-Genomic Functions and their Regulation, Li-Na Wei
  • 7 Non-Classical Transcriptional Activity of Retinoic Acid, Noa Noy
  • 8 Vitamin A as PKC Co-factor and Regulator of Mitochondrial Energetics, Ulrich Hammerling
  • 9 Vitamin A and Vision, John C Saari
  • Index.