. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jun 28.

Published in final edited form as: Curr Dev Nutr. 2017 Sep 6;1(12):cdn.116.000265. doi: 10.3945/cdn.116.000265

Table 3.

Fractional uptake of CM-REs and RBP-ROH from plasma to organs of control, VA-, and VARA-supplemented neonatal rats dosed orally with [³H]retinol on postnatal day 4¹

Organ	L(I,J) ± SEM
	Uptake of CM-REs(fraction of plasma retinol transferred/d)			Uptake of RBP-ROH(fraction of plasma retinol transferred/d)
	Control	VA	VARA	Control	VA	VARA
Stomach²	-	-	-	2.0 ± 0.9	10.0 ± 5.5	0.6 ± 0.3
Intestines	39.3 ± 8.4^a	19.1 ± 3.1^b	327 ± 15.5^c	0.01 ± 0.01^a	0.04 ± 0.01^b	9.8 ± 0.3^c
Liver	77.3 ± 3.4^a	304 ± 15.6^b	223 ± 3.7^c	6.7 ± 1.0^a	17.0 ± 0.5^b	28.1 ± 1.0^c
Lungs	5.1 ± 0.2^a	15.0 ± 1.1^b	32.6 ± 0.3^c	0.2 ± 0.1^a	4.6 ± 0.4^b	0.1 ± 0.0^a
Kidneys	34.8 ± 1.6^a	4.9 ± 0.4^b	1.4 ± 0.1^c	3.2 ± 0.1^a	6.8 ± 0.5^b	3.0 ± 0.1^a
Carcass	271.6 ± 12.7^a	176 ± 11.7^b	438 ± 6.3^c	7.7 ± 0.1^a	196 ± 6.5^b	7.2 ± 0.1^c

CM-REs, chylomicron retinyl esters; RBP-ROH, retinol bound to retinol-binding protein; VA, vitamin A; VARA, vitamin A combined with retinoic acid.

Stomach model did not include a CM-RE uptake component.

^a,b,c

Mean values within a row with unlike superscript letters are significantly different (P < 0.05; ANOVA).