Vitamin A Research Today is a free monthly online journal that collates and summarizes the latest research about Vitamin A, including details on retinol, benefits, dosage, supplements, deficiency, information.

Volume 1 (2004), Issue 6 (December)

1. Nuclear CD38 in retinoic acid-induced HL-60 cells.
   Exp Cell Res, 303(1): 14-21. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Expression of SMRTbeta promotes ligand-induced activation of mutated and wild-type retinoid receptors.
   Blood, 104(13): 4226-35. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Retinoic acid regulates C/EBP homologous protein expression (CHOP), which negatively regulates myeloid target genes.
   Blood, 104(13): 3911-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Tretinoin treatment before carbon-dioxide laser resurfacing: a clinical and biochemical analysis.
   J Am Acad Dermatol, 51(6): 940-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Hedgehog and retinoid signalling confines nkx2.2b expression to the lateral floor plate of the zebrafish trunk.
   Mech Dev, 122(1): 43-56. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Control of retinoic acid synthesis and FGF expression in the nasal pit is required to pattern the craniofacial skeleton.
   Dev Biol, 276(2): 313-29. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. All-trans retinoic acid inhibits proliferation of intestinal epithelial cells by inhibiting expression of the gene encoding Kruppel-like factor 5.
   FEBS Lett, 578(1): 99-105. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Mucin biosynthesis: upregulation of core 2 beta 1,6 N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase by retinoic acid and Th2 cytokines in a human airway epithelial cell line.
   Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol, 288(1): L116-24. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Retinol has specific effects on binding of thyrotrophin to cultured porcine thyrocytes.
   J Endocrinol, 183(3): 617-26. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. c-Myc-mediated expression of nucleophosmin/B23 decreases during retinoic acid-induced differentiation of human leukemia HL-60 cells.
    FEBS Lett, 578(3): 211-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. PCBs and DDT in the serum of juvenile California sea lions: associations with vitamins A and E and thyroid hormones.
    Environ Pollut, 134(2): 323-32. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Solvent-induced ligand dissociation and conformational states of Cellular Retinol-Binding Protein type I.
    Biochim Biophys Acta, 1703(1): 21-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Interactions amongst plasma retinol-binding protein, transthyretin and their ligands: implications in vitamin A homeostasis and transthyretin amyloidosis.
    Biochim Biophys Acta, 1703(1): 1-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Retinoic acid signaling acts via Hox1 to establish the posterior limit of the pharynx in the chordate amphioxus.
    Development, 132(1): 61-73. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Retinoic acid mediates degradation of IRS-1 by the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway, via a PKC-dependant mechanism.
    Oncogene, 23(57): 9269-79. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Expression profiles of Id1 and p16 proteins in all-trans-retinoic acid-induced apoptosis and cell cycle re-distribution in melanoma.
    Cancer Lett, 217(1): 33-41. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. A retinoic-acid critical period in the early postnatal mouse brain.
    Biol Psychiatry, 56(12): 971-80. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Retinoic acid down-regulates aldehyde dehydrogenase and increases cytotoxicity of 4-hydroperoxycyclophosphamide and acetaldehyde.
    J Pharmacol Exp Ther, 312(1): 339-45. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. Vdelta1 T lymphocytes from B-CLL patients recognize ULBP3 expressed on leukemic B cells and up-regulated by trans-retinoic acid.
    Cancer Res, 64(24): 9172-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. A novel RARbeta isoform directed by a distinct promoter P3 and mediated by retinoic acid in breast cancer cells.
    Cancer Res, 64(24): 8911-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. The structures of the unique sulfotransferase retinol dehydratase with product and inhibitors provide insight into enzyme mechanism and inhibition.
    Protein Sci, 14(1): 176-82. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Retinoic acid decreases nitric oxide production in endothelial cells: a role of phosphorylation of endothelial nitric oxide synthase at Ser(1179).
    Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 326(4): 703-10. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. The Notch ligand, Delta-1, alters retinoic acid (RA)-induced neutrophilic differentiation into monocytic and reduces RA-induced apoptosis in NB4 cells.
    Leuk Res, 29(2): 197-203. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. The beneficial effects of treatment with all-trans-retinoic acid plus corticosteroid on autoimmune nephritis in NZB/WF mice.
    Clin Exp Immunol, 139(1): 74-83. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. Free radical oxidation of (E)-retinoic acid by the Fenton reagent: competing epoxidation and oxidative breakdown pathways and novel products of 5,6-epoxyretinoic acid transformation.
    Chem Res Toxicol, 17(12): 1716-24. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. Oral alitretinoin (9-cis-retinoic acid) therapy for chronic hand dermatitis in patients refractory to standard therapy: results of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter trial.
    Arch Dermatol, 140(12): 1453-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. All-trans-retinoic acid induces interleukin-8 via the nuclear factor-kappaB and p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase pathways in normal human keratinocytes.
    J Invest Dermatol, 123(6): 1078-85. [Abstract] [Full-text]
28. All-trans retinoic acid enhances differentiation and influences permeability of intestinal Caco-2 cells under serum-free conditions.
    Dev Growth Differ, 46(6): 503-14. [Abstract] [Full-text]
29. Mitogen-activated protein kinases and mitogen-activated protein kinase phosphatases mediate the inhibitory effects of all-trans retinoic acid on the hypertrophic growth of cardiomyocytes.
    J Biol Chem, 279(52): 54905-17. [Abstract] [Full-text]
30. Retinoids and myelomonocytic growth factors cooperatively activate RARA and induce human myeloid leukemia cell differentiation via MAP kinase pathways.
    Blood, 105(1): 341-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
31. Novel retinoic acid metabolism blocking agents endowed with multiple biological activities are efficient growth inhibitors of human breast and prostate cancer cells in vitro and a human breast tumor xenograft in nude mice.
    J Med Chem, 47(27): 6716-29. [Abstract] [Full-text]
32. Retinoid-induced apoptosis in HL-60 cells is associated with nucleolin down-regulation and destabilization of Bcl-2 mRNA.
    Mol Pharmacol, 67(1): 319-26. [Abstract] [Full-text]
33. Effect of all-trans-retinoic acid on mRNA binding protein p62 in human gastric cancer cells.
    Int J Biochem Cell Biol, 37(3): 616-27. [Abstract] [Full-text]
34. Phase II study of all-trans retinoic acid in the accelerated phase or early blastic phase of chronic myeloid leukemia: a study of the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (E1993).
    Leuk Lymphoma, 46(3): 377-85. [Abstract] [Full-text]
35. Biological effects of Atra and Arsenic Trioxide on short term cultures of non-M3 leukemic blasts.
    Leuk Lymphoma, 46(2): 257-63. [Abstract] [Full-text]
36. Autologous and allogeneic stem-cell transplantation as salvage treatment of acute promyelocytic leukemia initially treated with all-trans-retinoic acid: a retrospective analysis of the European acute promyelocytic leukemia group.
    J Clin Oncol, 23(1): 120-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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