Abstract
A definite amount of aqueous emulsion of vitamin A-palmitate was injected into the femoral vein of a dog whose liver had been damaged by CCl_4 and the determination of serum vitamin A alcohol and its ester contents of arterial and hepatic venous blood was carried out before injection and 5,30,60 and 120 minutes after. Intravenously administered vitamin A ester was taken up in the damaged liver more rapidly than in the healthy tissue. The amount of the ester taken in the former was also larger than in the latter. Vitamin A ester taken up in the damaged liver was hardly hydrolyzed to the alcohol form.
