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Description

Retinal, also called retinaldehyde or vitamin A aldehyde, is one of the many forms of vitamin A. Retinal is a polyene chromophore, and bound to proteins called opsins, is the chemical basis of animal vision. Bound to proteins called type 1 rhodopsins, retinal allows certain microorganisms to convert light into metabolic energy.

Vertebrate animals ingest retinal directly from meat, or produce retinal from one of four carotenoids (beta-carotene, alpha-carotene, gamma-carotene, and beta-cryptoxanthin), which they must obtain from plants or other photosynthetic organisms (no other carotenoids can be converted by animals to retinal, and some carnivores cannot convert any carotenoids at all). The other main forms of vitamin A, retinol, and a partially active form retinoic acid, may both be produced from retinal.

Invertebrates such as insects and squid use hydroxylated forms of retinal in their visual systems, which derive from conversion from other xanthophylls. Copyright Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ for details. Source: Wikipedia, Wikipedia

Basic Part Properties

Part Display Name
Retinal
Part Type
Component (Describes the core component or analyte measured)
Created On
2000-05-04
Construct for LOINC Short Name
Retinal

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Language Variants Get Info

Tag Language Translation
zh-CN Chinese (China) 视黄醛
Synonyms: 瑞叮醛;维生素 A 醛;维生素 A1 醛;视杆视色素;视醛;视黄素
et-EE Estonian (Estonia) Retinaal
es-ES Spanish (Spain) Retinal
it-IT Italian (Italy) Retinico
tr-TR Turkish (Turkey) Retinal
ru-RU Russian (Russian Federation) Ретиналь
nl-NL Dutch (Netherlands) retinal