“…It was supposed that the amount of 1 × 10 8 RA molecules (as in our experimental setting) could not exclusively induce such profound morphological changes in the GA, preserving all other intracellular organelles, if "simple" fluidity alteration of the intracellular membranes took place. It was further supposed that the observed-RA effects may occur in an RAR-independent way that involves protein kinases and second messenger cascades (Anderson et al, 1985;Cope and Boutwell, 1985;Cope, 1986;Nowack et al, 1990;Zhao et al, 1990;Evain-Brion et al, 1991;Tang and Ziboh, 1991;Kurie et al, 1993;Bouzinba-Segard et al, 1994;Kahl-Rainer and Marian, 1994;Carter et al, 1998;Morré et al, 1998). The experimental evidence that the RAinduced GA-transformation could be suppressed by exposure to phorbol ester supported this assumption, and clearly demonstrated that some components of the protein kinase C (PKC) cascade play an important role in the RA-induced GA disruption.…”