Influence of iron on vitamin A nutritional status.
Iron deficiency seems to deteriorate vitamin A metabolism leading to a reduction in serum retinol and an increase in hepatic retinol and retinyl ester. These alterations probably result from an increase in retinol sequestration to the liver and/or impairment in the activity of hepatic retinyl ester hydrolases decreasing vitamin A mobilization.
Oliveira
Julicristie M
JM
Nutrition Department, School of Public Health, University of Sao Paulo USP, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Michelazzo
Fernanda B
FB
Stefanello
Juliana
J
Rondó
Patrícia H C
PH
D018798:Anemia, Iron-Deficiency / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D002265:Carboxylic Ester Hydrolases / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D007501:Iron / Q000097:blood*; D008099:Liver / Q000201:enzymology / Q000378:metabolism; D009752:Nutritional Status; D014801:Vitamin A / Q000097:blood* / Q000378:metabolism
D014801:Vitamin A; D007501:Iron; D002265:Carboxylic Ester Hydrolases; C022523:retinyl esterase