Vitamin A in adrenal hormone and mucopolysaccharide biosynthesis.

W E KNOW OF one function of vitamin A, that in vision, through the researches of Wald and his team. Through their work we know more about what this vitamin does in one particular biochemical reaction sequence than we do about any other fat-soluble vitamin. However, an animal dies of vitamin A deficiency, but not necessarily from blindness. Therefore, vitamin A must have another metabolic function. We began our search for this function in the most generalized l