Abstract
Radioisotopes and t.l.c. were used to indirectly determine the distribution and proportions of Vitamin A compounds in the rat eye. In the dark adapted eye there are Vitamin A compounds in the pigment epithelium; these compounds are likely within the rod outer segment discs being digested there. During light adaptation. 11- cis retinal decreases, all trans retinal increases and is reduced to retinol, and retinol is esterified to fatty acids in the retina and in the pigment epithelium. Essentially the reverse occurs during dark adaptation. It is suggested that the metabolism of Vitamin A compounds in the eye functions to return chromophore to the newly synthesized visual pigment at the base of the rod outer segment.
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