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Science 3 September 1971:
Vol. 173. no. 4000, pp. 939 - 941
DOI: 10.1126/science.173.4000.939
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Vitamin A: Concentration in the Rat Liver Golgi Apparatus

S. E. Nyquist 1, F. L. Crane 1, and D. James Morré 1

1 Departments of Biological Sciences and Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana 47907

Vitamin A compounds (principally as retinyl esters) are concentrated in Golgi apparatus fractions from rat liver. The amounts vary with the vitamin A status of the liver and show an inverse relation to the concentration of ubiubinone. The results suggest a specific role of the Golgi apparatus in the mobilization or action, or both, of vitamin A compounds.

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