Vitamin A esters and their hydrolysis in different organs and tissues
Natanson, A.O.; Eremina, G.V.
Voprosy Meditsinskoi Khimii 22(3): 388-392
1976
ISSN/ISBN: 0042-8809 PMID: 1030896 Document Number: 99289
Hydrolysis of retinyl palmitate and retinyl acetate was studied in rat blood, liver, intestine, testes, placenta and embyronic liver. Activity of retinyl palmitate hydrolase was found only in the walls of the small intestine and in trace amounts in the liver of some rats. Retinyl palmitate was very slowly hydrolysed in the liver, depending on the metabolic demands of the organism as a whole.