How to Use retinoic acid in a Sentence

retinoic acid

noun

• Retinol that converts to retinoic acid is the gold standard.
  — Fiorella Valdesolo, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2018
• Also known as tretinoin, retinoic acid is the most bioavailable retinoid.
  — Marci Robin, Allure, 19 May 2021
• Is there a difference between retinol and retinoic acid?
  — April Long, Town & Country, 18 Aug. 2020
• About a week later, the group injected the animals with retinoic acid.
  — Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2020
• But the only form of vitamin A that your body can recognize is the prescription-strength retinoic acid.
  — Emily Orofino, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Aug. 2021
• Retinol, retinal, and retinoic acid are all types of retinoids, which are vitamin A derivatives.
  — Tiffany Dodson, SELF, 30 May 2019
• Like retinol, this compound is a naturally occurring retinoid that the body converts to retinoic acid.
  — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 27 Dec. 2021
• Both retinol and retinoic acid fall under the umbrella of a group of vitamin A derivatives called retinoids.
  — Danusia Wnek, Good Housekeeping, 23 Aug. 2020
• Retinols must be converted to retinoic acid to have an effect, as opposed to prescription-strength retinoids that exist as retinoic acid.
  — Sam Peters, ELLE, 16 Mar. 2023
• Then, there are retinols, or a form of retinoids commonly found in over-the-counter skin care products, and retinoic acid, found in prescription medications.
  — Jessica Cruel, SELF, 26 Dec. 2020
• Vitamin A can otherwise be known as retinol, retinal or retinoic acid.
  — Delaney Nothaft, USA TODAY, 1 May 2023
• To their surprise, the team found that the sea lamprey core hindbrain circuit is also initiated by retinoic acid.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 Feb. 2024
• The topical retinoids most commonly used in skin care are retinoic acid, retinol, retinyl esters, and retinaldehyde.
  — Sarah Han, Allure, 22 Mar. 2023
• The only difference is that your body must convert retinol to retinoic acid, while retinoids are already in that active, ultra-potent state.
  — Emily Orofino, Good Housekeeping, 23 June 2021
• However, there are so many different types of retinol out there: retinol, retinal, retinoid, retinoic acid, tretinoin, and adapalene among them.
  — Tish Weinstock, Vogue, 6 Feb. 2023
• Retinoid is typically used to describe prescription-strength retinoid products, such as tretinoin and tazarotene, which have retinoic acid.
  — Deanna Pai, Glamour, 25 June 2020
• Yet retinoic acid signaling was thought to be essential for making a brain, nerve cord and other vital features.
  — Quanta Magazine, 1 Sep. 2020
• Breaking that down, retinyl retinoate is a hybrid molecule of retinol and retinoic acid that’s been studied to be eight times more powerful than retinol yet less irritating.
  — Morgan Sullivan, ELLE, 18 July 2023
• The best way to explain my avoidance is that my previously acne-prone self was introduced to retinol through its prescription cousin, Retin-A, also known as tretinoin or retinoic acid.
  — Sarah Wu, Glamour, 19 Aug. 2019
• Prescription Aklief cream, the first new retinoid product in more than 20 years, selectively targets RAR gamma, the most common retinoic acid receptor on the skin.
  — Claire Maldarelli, Popular Science, 2 Dec. 2020
• In particular, none of the genes involved in the synthesis, modification or degradation of retinoic acid were present.
  — Quanta Magazine, 1 Sep. 2020
• The two chemicals cooperate with one another, and even low doses of retinoic acid can strongly boost BMP12’s ability to produce naked skin.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 15 Mar. 2011
• Georg’s lab developed a non-hormonal pill, dubbed YCT529, that targets a protein called retinoic acid receptor alpha and is involved in sperm formation.
  — WIRED, 14 Feb. 2023
• The potent Rx creams contain retinoic acid, the active form of vitamin A that immediately binds with receptors on our skin cells, causing them to behave younger and healthier.
  — Jolene Edgar, Allure, 6 Oct. 2019
• To avoid any redness and flaking — which are signs that the active form of retinol, a compound called retinoic acid, is working in the skin to make more collagen — start using a retinoid just twice a week and follow up immediately with moisturizer.
  — Julie Ricevuto, Allure, 5 Nov. 2020
• Retinol is a gentler version of prescription-strength retinoids, which both use retinoic acid to help stimulate collagen production (for firmer-looking skin) and cellular turnover (to help resurface).
  — Emily Orofino, Good Housekeeping, 23 June 2021
• That’s because these medications are formulated to bind to only some receptors for retinoic acid.
  — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 30 Apr. 2019
• McCuscker’s chemical replacement for this requirement was retinoic acid, which the body makes from vitamin A.
  — Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2020
• Both ingredients can appear on labels with a variety of names — including retinyl acetate or all-trans retinoic acid for the former, and glycolic, lactic or citric acid for the latter.
  — Katie Mogg, NBC News, 29 Feb. 2024
• In a 2011 study published in Endocrinology, a drug compound successfully interfered with the signaling pathway of mouse cell receptors that are designed to pick up and use retinoic acid, making the mice sterile.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 20 May 2022

Last Updated: 18 Aug 2024