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(Vitamins and Hormones. Vol. 75.) Edited by Gerald Litwack. 412 pp., illustrated. San Diego, CA, Elsevier Academic Press, 2007. $149.95. ISBN 978-0-12-709875-3.

Vitamin A, part of the Vitamins and Hormones series from Elsevier Academic Press, is a timely, comprehensive, and well-organized collection of reviews on various aspects of the role of vitamin A in health and disease. It serves as a "one-stop shop" for scientific experts in biochemistry, physiology, and molecular biology, as well as for clinicians and public health practitioners who want up-to-date reviews of the regulatory role of vitamin A and its derivatives at the cellular and physiological levels.

The first half of the book (chapters 1 through 7) focuses on vitamin A and its derivatives in various metabolic . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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