title: Liver vitamin A concentration in patients who died of cancer.
abstract: The concentrations of vitamin A in liver samples obtained at autopsy of patients who died of cancer was investigated. It was found that liver vitamin A levels in cancer patients were significantly lower than in controls. Although our recent results have suggested that the decreased serum retinol level in cancer patients reflects rather a functional impairment of vitamin A release from the liver, the results of this study suggest that this phenomenon can also indicate a true vitamin A deficiency in patients with neoplastic process.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology and Metabolism, Medical Center of Postgraduate Education, Warsaw, Poland.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ostrowski
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Jarosz
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Butruk
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001344:Autopsy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000032:analysis*; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000032:analysis / Q000556:secondary*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000401:mortality; D014801:Vitamin A / Q000032:analysis* / Q000097:blood; D014802:Vitamin A Deficiency / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D014801:Vitamin A