Regulation of Hepatic Retinol Metabolism

Ross, A Catharine

Abstract

Funding Agency

• Agency: National Institute of Health (NIH)
• Institute: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
• Type: Research Project (R01)
• Project #: 7R01DK046869-02
• Application #: 3248221
• Study Section: Nutrition Study Section (NTN)
• Project Start: 1993-08-01
• Project End: 1997-07-31
• Budget Start: 1994-05-01
• Budget End: 1994-07-31
• Support Year: 2
• Fiscal Year: 1993

Institution

• Name: Pennsylvania State University
• Type: Other Domestic Higher Education
• City: University Park
• State: PA
• Country: United States
• Zip Code: 16802

Publications

Ross, A Catharine; Zolfaghari, Reza (2004) Regulation of hepatic retinol metabolism: perspectives from studies on vitamin A status. J Nutr 134:269S-275S

Ross, A Catharine (2003) Retinoid production and catabolism: role of diet in regulating retinol esterification and retinoic Acid oxidation. J Nutr 133:291S-296S

Hoegberg, Pi; Schmidt, Carsten K; Nau, Heinz et al. (2003) 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin induces lecithin: retinol acyltransferase transcription in the rat kidney. Chem Biol Interact 145:1-16

Zolfaghari, Reza; Ross, A Catharine (2003) Recent advances in molecular cloning of fatty acid desaturase genes and the regulation of their expression by dietary vitamin A and retinoic acid. Prostaglandins Leukot Essent Fatty Acids 68:171-9

Wang, Yuanping; Zolfaghari, Reza; Ross, A Catharine (2002) Cloning of rat cytochrome P450RAI (CYP26) cDNA and regulation of its gene expression by all-trans-retinoic acid in vivo. Arch Biochem Biophys 401:235-43

Zolfaghari, R; Ross, A C (2000) Lecithin:retinol acyltransferase from mouse and rat liver. CDNA cloning and liver-specific regulation by dietary vitamin a and retinoic acid. J Lipid Res 41:2024-34

Yamamoto, Y; Zolfaghari, R; Ross, A C (2000) Regulation of CYP26 (cytochrome P450RAI) mRNA expression and retinoic acid metabolism by retinoids and dietary vitamin A in liver of mice and rats. FASEB J 14:2119-27

Rosales, F J; Ross, A C (1998) A low molar ratio of retinol binding protein to transthyretin indicates vitamin A deficiency during inflammation: studies in rats and a posterior analysis of vitamin A-supplemented children with measles. J Nutr 128:1681-7

Rosales, F J; Ross, A C (1998) Acute inflammation induces hyporetinemia and modifies the plasma and tissue response to vitamin A supplementation in marginally vitamin A-deficient rats. J Nutr 128:960-6

Matsuura, T; Gad, M Z; Harrison, E H et al. (1997) Lecithin:retinol acyltransferase and retinyl ester hydrolase activities are differentially regulated by retinoids and have distinct distributions between hepatocyte and nonparenchymal cell fractions of rat liver. J Nutr 127:218-24