Retinol and retinol-binding protein in cerebrospinal fluid: Can vitamin A take the "idiopathic" out of idiopathic intracranial hypertension?

Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 253-257

  Libien, Jenny ^a,c   Blaner, William S ^b  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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

^c Downstate Health Sciences University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTRETINOIN; MINOCYCLINE; RETINOIC ACID; RETINOL; RETINOL BINDING PROTEIN; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE;

ACNE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CARROT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; DRUG TRANSPORT; EDITORIAL; EYE DISEASE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LIVER; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; RETINOL INTOXICATION; SIDE EFFECT; VISUAL SYSTEM; VITAMIN METABOLISM;

HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PSEUDOTUMOR CEREBRI; RETINOL-BINDING PROTEINS; VITAMIN A;

EID: 37349006842     PISSN: 10708022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNO.0b013e31815c44bc     Document Type: Editorial

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