Vitamin A: History, Current Uses, and Controversies

Seminars in Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 11-16

  Chapman, M Shane ^a,b  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone metabolism; Carotenoids; Depression; Inflammatory bowel disease; Istotretinoin; Retinoids; Suicidal ideation; Sunscreens; Teratogenicity; Vitamin A

Indexed keywords

ADAPALENE; ALITRETINOIN; BETA CAROTENE; BEXAROTENE; CLINDAMYCIN; DECUTAN; ETRETIN; ETRETINATE; ISOTRETINOIN; RETINOIC ACID; RETINOID; RETINOL; RETINOL DERIVATIVE; SUNSCREEN; TAZAROTENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACNE; ACNE VULGARIS; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANOREXIA; BLURRED VISION; BONE DENSITY; BONE MARROW CANCER; BONE METABOLISM; BONE TURNOVER; BREAST CANCER; BROCCOLI; CANTALOUPE; CARDIOVASCULAR MALFORMATION; CARROT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; COLLARD; CONGENITAL ICHTHYOSIFORM ERYTHRODERMA; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; DARIER DISEASE; DEPRESSION; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; ENTERITIS; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; GENE FUNCTION; HAIR LOSS; HAND ECZEMA; HEADACHE; HIDRADENITIS; HUMAN; KAPOSI SARCOMA; LIMB MALFORMATION; LIVER; LUNG CANCER; MENTAL DISEASE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NAUSEA; NEUROBLASTOMA; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; PSORIASIS; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; RETINOL INTOXICATION; REVIEW; ROSACEA; SKIN LYMPHOMA; SPINACH; SQUASH; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SWEET POTATO; TERATOGENICITY; VITAMIN INTAKE; VITAMIN METABOLISM; VOMITING;

ACNE VULGARIS; BONE AND BONES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ICHTHYOSIS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; MALE; NUTRITION POLICY; PSORIASIS; RETINOIDS; SEX FACTORS; SKIN; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUNSCREENING AGENTS; TRETINOIN; VITAMIN A; VITAMINS;

EID: 84857225429     PISSN: 10855629     EISSN: 15580768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sder.2011.11.009     Document Type: Review

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