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Vitamin A: Occurrence and distribution in fractionated mucus
Author(s) -
Lewis R. W.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
lipids
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.601
H-Index - 120
eISSN - 1558-9307
pISSN - 0024-4201
DOI - 10.1007/bf02531912
Subject(s) - mucus , centrifugation , differential centrifugation , lipidology , chromatography , fraction (chemistry) , chemistry , biochemistry , biology , clinical chemistry , ecology
Vitamin A was found in human and bovine mucus, principally as retinyl esters, and was traced to a fraction containing the mucus globule membrane, which was obtained by differential centrifugation of dissolved mucus. This fraction has not been isolated before.