The components of VARA, a nutrient-metabolite combination of vitamin A and retinoic acid, act efficiently together and separately to increase retinyl esters in the lungs of neonatal rats

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 136, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2803-2807

  Ross, A Catharine ^a,b   Li, Nan Qian ^a   Wu, Lili ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RETINOIC ACID; RETINOL; RETINOL ESTER;

ABSORPTION; AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FETUS LUNG MATURATION; LIVER; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; RAT;

EID: 33751072398     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jn/136.11.2803     Document Type: Article

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