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Excessive dietary intake of vitamin A reduces skull bone thickness in mice
Calvarial thinning and skull bone defects have been reported in infants with hypervitaminosis A. These findings have also been described in humans, mice and zebrafish with loss-of-function mutations in the enzyme CYP26B1 that degrades retinoic acid (RA), the active metabolite of vitamin A, indicatin...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5398668/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28426756 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0176217 |