... Therelative abundance of ADH3 within many different tissuetypes is probably related to the need of scavengingformaldehyde for cytoprotection, but low activity of ADH3 with ethanol and retinol cannot ... Tomac,A.,Eriksson,U.,Perlmann,T.&Olson,L.(1999)Roleofretinoids in the CNS: differential expression of retinoid binding proteins and receptors and evidence for presence of retinoic acid.Eur. J. Neurosci. 11, ... genes ADH1, ADH3 and ADH4.Similar mRNA length and high nucleotide and aminoacid sequence identity of all ADHs lead to a large risk forcross-reactivity of probes at the mRNA and protein level,making...