Contents
1 How Dietary Deficiency Studies Have Illuminated the Many Roles
of Vitamin A During Development and Postnatal Life . . . . . . . . . . .
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Mary Ann Asson-Batres
2 Maternal-Fetal Transfer of Vitamin A and Its Impact on
Mammalian Embryonic Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Loredana Quadro and Elizabeth Kuhn Spiegler
3 Retinoic Acid-Regulated Target Genes During Development:
Integrative Genomics Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Cecile Rochette-Egly
4 RA Signaling in Limb Development and Regeneration in Different
Species . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Malcolm Maden
5 Retinoic Acid Signaling and Heart Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Eliyahu Perl and Joshua S. Waxman
6 Retinoic Acid Signaling and Development of the Respiratory
System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Hector A. Marquez and Felicia Chen
7 Retinoic Acid Signaling and the Zebrafish Dentition During
Development and Evolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
William R. Jackman and Yann Gibert
8 Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: Embryogenesis Under Reduced
Retinoic Acid Signaling Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Abraham Fainsod, Liat Bendelac-Kapon, and Yehuda Shabtai
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
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