One active metabolite of vitamin A, RA, not only enhances the visual process and neurogenesis, but also drastically impacts immune responses and has great therapeutic potential in autoimmune diseases (1, 2, 3, 4).
Migratory dendritic cells (DCs) convert vitamin A to Retinoic Acid (RA) (all-trans-retinoic acid) in the mouse epithelial tissues, including the intestine, skin, lung, as well as in the associated draining lymph nodes (5).
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