Accumulation of Vitamin A in the Hepatic Stellate Cell of Arctic Top Predators

Anatomical Record

Volumn 295, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1660-1668

  Senoo, Haruki ^a   Imai, Katsuyuki ^a   Mezaki, Yoshihiro ^a   Miura, Mitsutaka ^a   Morii, Mayako ^a   Fujiwara, Mutsunori ^b   Blomhoff, Rune ^c  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b JAPANESE RED CROSS MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arctic fox; Bearded seal; Biodiversity; Food web; Glaucous gull; Hepatic stellate cells; Hypervitaminosis A; Polar bear; Retinoid storage

Indexed keywords

FAT DROPLET; RETINOL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD WEB; FOX; GREENLAND; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ITO CELL; LEYDIG CELL; LIPID STORAGE; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLAR BEAR; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINDEER; RETINOL INTOXICATION; SEAL; STELLATE CELL; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; CHARADRIIFORMES; HEPATIC STELLATE CELLS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; REINDEER; SEALS, EARLESS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL; URSIDAE; VITAMIN A;

ALOPEX LAGOPUS; ANIMALIA; AVES; ERIGNATHUS; LARUS HYPERBOREUS; MAMMALIA; RATTUS; URSUS MARITIMUS;

EID: 84866154052     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.22555     Document Type: Article

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