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Vitamin A

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Nutrition and the Adult

Part of the book series: Human Nutrition ((HUNU,volume 3B))

Abstract

Vitamin A, one of the fat-soluble vitamins, differs from the other vitamins in many ways: It was the first vitamin to be discovered, and it has a multiplicity of different functions—in vision, in bone growth, in reproduction, in maintenance of epithelia, and in growth. The biochemical basis for each of these functions is probably distinct; even though discovered as long ago as 1915 by McCollum and Davis, we still know very little about vitamin A’s biochemical mechanisms of action except for the process of vision.

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