Vitamin A and Retinoids in Health and Disease

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 310, Issue 16, 1984, Pages 1023-1031

  Epstein, Franklin H ^a   Goodman, Dewitt S ^b  

^a Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*

^b Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROTINOID; RETINOIC ACID; RETINOID; RETINOL;

BIOAVAILABILITY; CANCER; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; HUMAN; NIGHT BLINDNESS; NUTRITION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PHARMACOKINETICS; REVIEW; THERAPY; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HUMAN; LIVER; MALE; NEOPLASMS; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENTS; RETINOIDS; RETINOL-BINDING PROTEINS; SKIN DISEASES; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TRETINOIN; VITAMIN A; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY;

EID: 0021174089     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198404193101605     Document Type: Review

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