Lecithin:retinol acyltransferase and retinyl ester hydrolase activities are differentially regulated by retinoids and have distinct distributions between hepatocyte and nonparenchymal cell fractions of rat liver

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 218-224

  Matsuura, Tomokazu ^a,c   Gad, Mohamed Z ^a,d   Harrison, Earl H ^a   Ross, A Catharine ^a,b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

rats; retinamide; retinoic acid; stellate cells; vitamin A

Indexed keywords

LECITHIN RETINOL ACYLTRANSFERASE; N ETHYLRETINAMIDE; RETINOIC ACID; RETINOID; RETINOL; RETINYL PALMITATE ESTERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ISOLATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; LIVER CELL; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RAT; STELLATE CELL;

EID: 0031055373     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jn/127.2.218     Document Type: Article

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