| Literature DB >> 20803520 |
Karina Pino-Lagos1, Yanxia Guo, Randolph J Noelle.
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For the past 100 years, vitamin A has been implicated as an essential dietary component in host resistance to infectious disease. However, only recently have studies begun to elucidate the cellular and molecular mechanisms of how vitamin A regulates cell-mediated and humoral-mediated immunity. In this review, we present an overview of the recent discoveries of the role that vitamin A and its metabolite, retinoic acid (RA), play in the regulation of immune cells. How RA impacts on leukocyte growth, differentiation, and homing is discussed with special attention to inflammatory responses and solid tumor microenvironment.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20803520 PMCID: PMC3826167 DOI: 10.1002/biof.117
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biofactors ISSN: 0951-6433 Impact factor: 6.113