(Table 1) Retinol (vitamin A) and alpha-tocopherol (vitamin E) concentration in polar bear (Ursus maritimus) kidney

• Main Authors: Bechshøft, Thea Ø, Jakobsen, Jette, Sonne, Christian, Dietz, Rune
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2011
• Subjects: alpha-Tocopherol; Biological sample; BIOS; High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC); International Polar Year (2007-2008); IPY; Position; Quaanaaq; Retinol; Sample amount; Standard deviation; West Greenland; Greenland; International Polar Year; Ursus maritimus
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.807262; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.807262

Vitamins A and E content of inner organs, among these the kidneys, are increasingly being used as an indicator of adverse effects caused to the organism by e.g. environmental contaminants. In general, only a renal sub sample is used for analyses, and it is thus essential to know which part of the or...