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Accession
GO:0006776
Name
vitamin A metabolic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
vitamin A metabolism
Alternate IDs
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Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways involving any of the vitamin A compounds, retinol, retinal (retinaldehyde) and retinoic acid, all of which are derivatives of beta-carotene. Source: GOC:jl, http://www.dentistry.leeds.ac.uk/biochem/thcme/vitamins.html#k
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History
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Subset
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Parents of vitamin A metabolic process (GO:0006776)
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vitamin A metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  retinoid metabolic process (GO:0001523)
vitamin A metabolic process [RO:0004007 relation] RO:0004007  vitamin A (CHEBI:12777)
vitamin A metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  fat-soluble vitamin metabolic process (GO:0006775)
Children of vitamin A metabolic process (GO:0006776)
subject[Reorder by subject] relation[Reorder by relation] object[Reorder by object]
regulation of vitamin A metabolic process (GO:1901738) [RO:0002211 relation] RO:0002211  vitamin A metabolic process
vitamin A biosynthetic process (GO:0035238) [is_a relation] is_a  vitamin A metabolic process
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