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“This investigation seemed relevant as ethanol is an aetiological factor in these cancers and has been suggested to interfere with the synthesis of atRA.”
“1,2 This report concerns a patient with hyperlipemia and lipemia retinalis provoked by an inordinately large consumption of alcohol of at least several months' duration.”
“We also find that ethanol inhibits all-trans retinol oxidation in a complex fashion, an observation which may have important consequences in view of the physiological role of retinol and its oxidation products.”