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ReviewNutrients2017

Role of Vitamin A/Retinoic Acid in Regulation of Embryonic and Adult Hematopoiesis.

Ana Cañete, Elena Cano, Ramón Muñoz-Chápuli, Rita Carmona

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Review in Nutrients, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 63 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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63citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.6field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

63 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 111 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Retinoic acid in health and disease.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2026
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  10. Retinoic acid drives hair follicle stem cell activation via Wnt/β-catenin signalling in androgenetic alopecia.Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology : JEADV · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Ana CañeteDepartment of Animal Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Malaga, Campus de Teatinos s/n Malaga 29071, Spain and Andalusian Center for Nanomedicine and Biotechnology (BIONAND), Severo Ochoa 25, Campanillas 29590, Spain. acansan@uma.es.
Elena CanoMax-Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine, Robert Roessle-Strasse 10, 13125 Berlin, Germany. Elena.CanoRincon@mdc-berlin.de.
Ramón Muñoz-ChápuliDepartment of Animal Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Malaga, Campus de Teatinos s/n Malaga 29071, Spain and Andalusian Center for Nanomedicine and Biotechnology (BIONAND), Severo Ochoa 25, Campanillas 29590, Spain. chapuli@uma.es.
Rita CarmonaDepartment of Animal Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Malaga, Campus de Teatinos s/n Malaga 29071, Spain and Andalusian Center for Nanomedicine and Biotechnology (BIONAND), Severo Ochoa 25, Campanillas 29590, Spain. rita@uma.es.
Andalusian Centre for Nanomedicine and Biotechnology · ESMax Delbrück Center · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vitamin A is an essential micronutrient throughout life. Its physiologically active metabolite retinoic acid (RA), acting through nuclear retinoic acid receptors (RARs), is a potent regulator of patterning during embryonic development, as well as being necessary for adult tissue homeostasis. Vitamin A deficiency during pregnancy increases risk of maternal night blindness and anemia and may be a cause of congenital malformations. Childhood Vitamin A deficiency can cause xerophthalmia, lower resistance to infection and increased risk of mortality. RA signaling appears to be essential for expression of genes involved in developmental hematopoiesis, regulating the endothelial/blood cells balance in the yolk sac, promoting the hemogenic program in the aorta-gonad-mesonephros area and stimulating eryrthropoiesis in fetal liver by activating the expression of erythropoietin. In adults, RA signaling regulates differentiation of granulocytes and enhances erythropoiesis. Vitamin A may facilitate iron absorption and metabolism to prevent anemia and plays a key role in mucosal immune responses, modulating the function of regulatory T cells. Furthermore, defective RA/RARα signaling is involved in the pathogenesis of acute promyelocytic leukemia due to a failure in differentiation of promyelocytes. This review focuses on the different roles played by vitamin A/RA signaling in physiological and pathological mouse hematopoiesis duddurring both, embryonic and adult life, and the consequences of vitamin A deficiency for the blood system.

Indexed as

Anemia, Iron-DeficiencyAnimalsCell DifferentiationDisease Models, AnimalEmbryonic DevelopmentEpigenesis, GeneticErythropoiesisErythropoietinFemaleGranulocytesHematopoiesisHumansLeukemia, Promyelocytic, AcutePregnancyReceptors, Retinoic AcidSignal TransductionEPO protein, humanErythropoietinReceptors, Retinoic AcidTretinoinVitamin Aembryoshematopoiesisleukemiaretinoic acidvitamin Avitamin A deficiency

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PMID28230720
PMCPMC5331590
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