Retinoids (vitaminA)' continue t o be substances of interest in a multifarious set of biological processes including those in vision,2a energy transduction,2b cancer (1) Sporn, M. B.; Roberts, A. B.; Goodman, D. S. 'The Retinoids"; Academic Press: New York, 1984; Vol. 1 and 2. For a brief discourse on the problems of retinoid nomenclature, see pages 11-14 and pages 393-412 of Volume 1 of this treatise. For convenience, we have adopted the standard numbering system utilized for retinol as depicted in structure 1 of the text.
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