{"id":1643,"date":"2020-07-24T20:42:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T20:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medschool.prd.vanderbilt.edu\/biochemistry\/?page_id=1643"},"modified":"2020-07-24T21:25:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T21:25:31","slug":"frank-chytil%e2%80%8b","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/biochemistry\/frank-chytil%e2%80%8b\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Chytil\u200b"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 250px;height: 287px;margin-left: 7px;margin-right: 7px;float: left\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/113\/public_files\/Chytil\/Chytil.jpg\" alt=\"Chytil.jpg\" \/>For nearly 30 years, Dr. Chytil&#8217;s research focused on deciphering\u00a0how vitamin A works at the molecular level.\u00a0His research advanced the understanding of how vitamin A affects\u00a0lung function of premature infants.\u00a0In 2003, he published\u00a0an autobiographical essay in the Annual Review of Nutrition\u00a0titled <em><a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/113\/public_files\/Chytil\/Chytil%20autobiographical%20article.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Rough and Rocky Road to the Retinoid Revolution,&#8221;<\/a><\/em>\u00a0which\u00a0detailed his research and his life in Czechoslovakia under Nazi\u00a0occupation and later communist rule.<\/p>\n<p>Read Dr. Chytil&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/113\/public_files\/Chytil\/Chytil_obits.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">obituaries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For nearly 30 years, Dr. Chytil&#8217;s research focused on deciphering\u00a0how vitamin A works at the molecular level.\u00a0His research advanced the understanding of how vitamin A affects\u00a0lung function of premature infants.\u00a0In 2003, he published\u00a0an autobiographical essay in the Annual Review of Nutrition\u00a0titled &#8220;Rough and Rocky Road to the Retinoid Revolution,&#8221;\u00a0which\u00a0detailed his research and his life in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1643","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ACF":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/biochemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/biochemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/biochemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/biochemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/biochemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1643"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/biochemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1661,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/biochemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1643\/revisions\/1661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/biochemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/biochemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}