Carotenoids Volume 5: Nutrition and Health /
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Basel :
Birkhäuser Basel : Imprint: Birkhäuser,
2009.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2009. |
| Colección: | Carotenoids ;
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.