Description
General DescriptionRetinal, retinol and retinoic acid are the aldehyde, alcohol and acid forms of vitamin A. The retinoids exist as many geometric isomers due to the unsaturated bonds in the aliphatic chain. Retinoids also exist as retinyl esters such as retinyl propionate, retinyl acetate and retinyl palmitate.ApplicationRetinyl acetate has been used: a control diet to study its effect at different developmental periods in fish larvae to study its inhibitory effects on Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) strains as an internal standard in high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) to quantify vitamin A in fortified milk