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Research Article| Volume 1, ISSUE 4, P699-711, December 1981

Vitamin A

  • Philip J. Garry
    Correspondence
    Corresponding author: Clinical Nutrition Laboratory, 2701 Frontier Place, N.E., Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131
    Affiliations
    Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, and Director, Clinical Nutrition Laboratory, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0272-2712(18)31075-8
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      Clinical evidence of vitamin A deficiency or toxicity is discussed. Current methods used to assess vitamin A status are critiqued; of these, high performance liquid chromatography appears to have the greatest potential for sensitive, specific, and accurate measurements of vitamin A in biologic samples.
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