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  • Title: Effects of dietary vitamin A deficiency, retinoic acid and protein quantity and quality on serially obtained plasma and liver levels of vitamin A in rats.
    Author: Underwood BA, Loerch JD, Lewis KC.
    Journal: J Nutr; 1979 May; 109(5):796-806. PubMed ID: 438897.
    Abstract:
    Rats were fed vitamin A-deficient diets either alone, supplemented with retinoic acid (RA), or of limited protein quality or quantity (7%rice or 7% casein protein); one group was fed 7% rice protein supplemented with vitamin A. Plasma and liver levels of vitamin A were determined serially. Plasma levels in rats fed otherwise adequate vitamin A-deficient diets remained above 30 micrograms/dl until liver reserves were below 10 micrograms/g tissue, at which point plasma levels decreased in some but not all rats while liver levels continued to decline (at a slower rate) to levels as low as 3 micrograms/g. Supplementation with RA caused an immediate and sustained reduction of 15 to 20 micrograms/dl in circulating vitamin A. At 7% dietary protein, plasma levels of vitamin A remained above 30 micrograms/dl when casein protein was fed or when the rice protein diet was supplemented with dietary vitamin A, but not when the rice protein diet was fed without an exogenous source of the vitamin. A scheme is proposed suggesting possible regulatory mechanisms that might control homeostatic levels of plasma vitamin A.
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