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Genetic Variations Associated with Vitamin A Status and Vitamin A Bioavailability.
Nutrients - 8 Mar 2017
Borel Patrick, Desmarchelier Charles
Abstract excerpt
Blood concentration of vitamin A (VA), which is present as different molecules, i.e., mainly retinol and provitamin A carotenoids, plus retinyl esters in the postprandial period after a VA-containing meal, is affected by numerous factors: dietary VA intake, VA absorption efficiency, efficiency of provitamin A carotenoid conversion to VA, VA tissue uptake, etc. Most of these factors are in turn modulated by...
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