Reagent		Source	Catalog number
1.	Gibco™ DMEM, high glucose	Thermo Fisher Scientific	11965118
2.	Fetal bovine serum	Thermo Fisher Scientific	10437028
3.	Penicillin–streptomycin	Thermo Fisher Scientific	MT-30-002-CI
4.	l-Glutamine	Thermo Fisher Scientific	MT-25-005-CI
5.	RBC lysis buffer 1 ×	Thermo Fisher Scientific	00-4333-57
6.	Trypsin–EDTA (0.25%, phenol red)	Thermo Fisher Scientific	25200114
7.	Thioglycolate medium brewer modified (dehydrated culture media)	BD BBL™	BD 211716
8.	Trypan blue	Gibco	15250061
9.	Ethanol	Thermo Fisher Scientific	4355223
10.	Acetone	Thermo Fisher Scientific	A 184
11.	Hexane	Thermo Fisher Scientific	H 3024
12.	Ethyl acetate	Thermo Fisher Scientific	E 1954
13.	Retinyl palmitate	Cayman Chemicals	23796
14.	Retinyl acetate	Cayman Chemicals	20242
15.	Retinol	Sigma	R 7632
16.	Phosphate-buffered saline (PBS, 10 ×, pH 7.4)	Thermo Fisher Scientific	BP 3991
17.	Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO)	Sigma	D 2650
18.	Pierce™ Coomassie Plus (Bradford) Assay Kit	Thermo Fisher Scientific	23236
19.	AIN 93G-Purified diet	Research Diets	D 17041301
20.	Alanine transaminase and aspartate aminotransferase activity kits	Abcam	ab 105134 and ab 105135
21.	Pierce™ chromogenic endotoxin quant kit	Thermo Fisher Scientific	A 39552
22.	TRIzol™ LS Reagent	Thermo Fisher Scientific	10296010
23.	Direct-zol™ RNA MicroPrep (200 Preps) with Zymo-Spin IC Columns	Zymo Research	R 2063
24.	Verso cDNA synthesis reverse transcriptase kit	Thermo Fisher Scientific	AB 1453 B
25.	Mouse Hprt probe	Thermo Fisher Scientific	Mm-03024075_m1
26.	Mouse Rarß probe	Thermo Fisher Scientific	Mm-01319677_m1
27.	Mouse Cyp26a1 probe	Thermo Fisher Scientific	Mm-00514486_m1
28.	Mouse Ccl2 probe	Thermo Fisher Scientific	Mm-00441242_m1
29.	Taqman fast advance mix	Thermo Fisher Scientific	44-449-63
30.	Sudan black	Sigma	S-0395
31.	Ethylene glycol	Thermo Fisher Scientific	E-178-1
32.	Potassium bromide	Thermo Fisher Scientific	P-205-500
33.	Sucrose	Thermo Fisher Scientific	S5-500
34.	30% Acrylamide	Bio-Rad	1610158
35.	2× Laemmli buffer	Bio-Rad	1610737
36.	Ammonium persulfate	Sigma	A-3678
37.	Tetramethyl ethylenediamine (TEMED)	Sigma	110-18-9
38.	anti-Apolipoprotein B (ApoB, Polyclonal)	Millipore Sigma	AB-742
39.	Polyclonal rabbit anti-human retinol-binding protein (anti-RBP4)	Dako	A-0040
40.	Retinoic acid	Sigma	R2500