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Retinoic acid signals the direction of ocular elongation in the guinea pig eye by McFadden, Sally A, Howlett, Marc H.C, Mertz, James R

“…A growing eye becomes myopic after form deprivation (FD) or compensates for the power and sign of imposed spectacle lenses. A possible mediator of the…”
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Change in the Synthesis Rates of Ocular Retinoic Acid and Scleral Glycosaminoglycan during Experimentally Altered Eye Growth in Marmosets by Troilo, David, Nickla, Debora L, Mertz, James R, Rada, Jody A. Summers

“…The purpose of this study was to examine the possibility that all-trans-retinoic acid (RA) in the eye is a signal related to changes in scleral extracellular…”
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Acute effects of dietary retinoic acid on ocular components in the growing chick by McFadden, Sally A., Howlett, Marc H.C., Mertz, James R., Wallman, Josh

“…When the eyes of chicks are induced to grow toward myopia or hyperopia by having them wear spectacle lenses or diffusers, opposite changes take place in the…”
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Biochemical properties, tissue expression, and gene structure of a short chain dehydrogenase/ reductase able to catalyze cis-retinol oxidation by Gamble, M V, Shang, E, Zott, R P, Mertz, J R, Wolgemuth, D J, Blaner, W S

“…We have identified a retinol dehydrogenase (cRDH) that catalyzes the oxidation of 9-cis- but not all-trans-retinol and proposed that this enzyme plays an…”
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Characterization of a New Member of the Fatty Acid-binding Protein Family That Binds All-trans-retinol by Vogel, Silke, Mendelsohn, Cathy L., Mertz, James R., Piantedosi, Roseann, Waldburger, Carey, Gottesman, Max E., Blaner, William S.

“…Cellular retinol-binding protein, type I (CRBP-I) and type II (CRBP-II) are the only members of the fatty acid-binding protein (FABP) family that process…”
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Identification of Two Regions in Apolipoprotein B100 That Are Exposed on the Cytosolic Side of the Endoplasmic Reticulum Membrane by Du, Xiaobo, Stoops, J. Daniel, Mertz, James R., Stanley, C. Michael, Dixon, Joseph L.

“…Protease protection assays of apolipoprotein B100 (apoB) in digitonin-permeabilized HepG2 cells indicated that multiple domains of apoB are exposed to the…”
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Identification and Characterization of a Stereospecific Human Enzyme That Catalyzes 9-cis-Retinol Oxidation by Mertz, James R., Shang, Enyuan, Piantedosi, Roseann, Wei, Shuanghong, Wolgemuth, Debra J., Blaner, William S.

“…All- trans - and 9- cis -retinoic acid are active retinoids for regulating expression of retinoid responsive genes, serving as ligands for two classes of…”
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Choroidal Retinoic Acid Synthesis: A Possible Mediator between Refractive Error and Compensatory Eye Growth by MERTZ, JAMES R., WALLMAN, JOSH

“…Research over the past two decades has shown that the growth of young eyes is guided by vision. If near-or far-sightedness is artificially imposed by spectacle…”
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Purification, partial characterization, and localization ofSak57, an acidic intermediate filament keratin present in rat spermatocytes, spermatids, and sperm by Kierszenbaum, Abraham L., Rivkin, Eugene, Fefer-Sadler, Sandra, Mertz, James R., Tres, Laura L.

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Cellular retinoic acid- and cellular retinol-binding proteins: complementary deoxyribonucleic acid cloning, chromosomal assignment, and tissue specific expression by Wei, L N, Mertz, J R, Goodman, D S, Nguyen-Huu, M C

“…Both cellular retinoic acid-binding protein (CRABP) and cellular retinol-binding protein (CRBP) are widely distributed in mammalian tissues and display…”
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Identification and characterization of a stereospecific human enzyme that catalyzes 9-cis-retinol oxidation. A possible role in 9-cis-retinoic acid formation by Mertz, J R, Shang, E, Piantedosi, R, Wei, S, Wolgemuth, D J, Blaner, W S

“…All-trans- and 9-cis-retinoic acid are active retinoids for regulating expression of retinoid responsive genes, serving as ligands for two classes of…”
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Purification, partial characterization, and localization of Sak57, an acidic intermediate filament keratin present in rat spermatocytes, spermatids, and sperm by Kierszenbaum, Abraham L., Rivkin, Eugene, Fefer-Sadler, Sandra, Mertz, James R., Tres, Laura L.

“…We have purified a 57 kDa protein (designated Sak57, for spermatogenic cell/sperm‐associated keratin) from sodium dodecyl…”
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Substrate specificities and 13- cis-retinoic acid inhibition of human, mouse and bovine cis-retinol dehydrogenases by Gamble, Mary V., Mata, Nathan L., Tsin, Andy T., Mertz, James R., Blaner, William S.

“…Recent studies of the human, mouse and bovine genes for 11- cis-retinol dehydrogenase (11cRDH) and human and mouse 9- cis-retinol dehydrogenase (9cRDH) suggest…”
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Rat sperm galactosyl receptor: purification and identification by polyclonal antibodies raised against multiple antigen peptides by Mertz, J R, Banda, P W, Kierszenbaum, A L

“…We have previously reported the purification of rats testis galactosyl receptor, an equivalent to the Ca(2+)-dependent (C-type) minor variant of rat hepatic…”
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Localization of retinoid binding proteins, retinoid receptors, and retinaldehyde dehydrogenase in the chick eye by Fischer, Andy J, Wallman, Josh, Mertz, James R, Stell, William K

“…Retinoids have many functions in the eye, including, perhaps, the visual guidance of ocular growth. Therefore, we identified where retinoid receptors, binding…”
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Rat Sertoli and spermatogenic cells express a similar gene, and its product is antigenically related to an outer dense fiber-associated protein by Smith, F F, Mertz, J R, Krebs, I, Tres, L L, Chae, C B, Zakeri, Z, Engelhardt, J, Hoover, D, Tenniswood, M, Kierszenbaum, A L

“…We have previously reported that a heterodimeric protein secreted by rat Sertoli cells is antigenically related to a protein associated with outer dense fibers…”
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Localization of retinoid binding proteins, retinoid receptors, and retinaldehyde dehydrogenase in the chick eye by Fischer, A J, Wallman, J, Mertz, J R, Stell, W K

“…Retinoids have many functions in the eye, including, perhaps, the visual guidance of ocular growth. Therefore, we identified where retinoid receptors, binding…”
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