Carotenoids Volume 5: Nutrition and Health - Britton, George; Liaaen-Jensen, Synnove; Pfander, Hanspeter; SpringerLink (Online service) (Basel : Birkhäuser Basel : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2009)
Editors' Introduction: A Healthy Debate -- Analysis of Carotenoids in Nutritional Studies -- Carotenoids in Food -- Supplements -- Microbial and Microalgal Carotenoids as Colourants and Supplements -- Genetic Manipulation of Carotenoid Content and Composition in Crop Plants -- Absorption, Transport, Distribution in Tissues and Bioavailability -- Carotenoids as Provitamin A -- Vitamin A and Vitamin A Deficiency -- Epidemiology and Intervention Trials -- Modulation of Intracellular Signalling Pathways by Carotenoids -- Antioxidant/Pro-oxidant Actions of Carotenoids -- Carotenoids and Cancer -- Carotenoids and Coronary Heart Disease -- The Eye -- Skin Photoprotection by Carotenoids -- The Immune System -- Biological Activities of Carotenoid Metabolites -- Editors' Assessment.
Keywords: Chemistry; Food-Biotechnology.; Human physiology; Immunology; Pharmacology; Nutrition .; Chemistry/Food Science, general; Food Science; Human Physiology; Immunology; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Nutrition