Cardiotenoids in health and disease /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Marcel Dekker,
2004.
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| Series: | Oxidative stress and disease ;
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Table of Contents:
- Basic carotenoid chemistry
- Carotenoids and radicals : interactions with other nutrients
- Noninvasive assessment of carotenoids in the human eye and skin
- Methodology for assessment of carotenoid levels in blood and plasma fractions
- Carotenoid antioxidant activity
- Evidence for pro-oxidant effects of carotenoids in vitro and in vivo : implications in health and disease
- Carotenoid orientation : role in membrane stabilization
- Anticancer activity of carotenoids : from human studies to cellular processes and gene regulation
- Induction of cytochrome P450 enzymes by carotenoids
- Impact of food processing on content and bioavailability
- Transport, uptake, and target tissue storage of carotenoids
- Bioequivalence of provitamin A carotenoids
- Bioconversion of provitamin A carotenoids
- Carotenoid oxidative/degradative products and their biological activity
- Conversion of carotenoids to vitamin A : new insights on the molecular level
- Enzymatic versus chemical cleavage of carotenoids : supramolecular enzyme mimics for beta-carotene 15, 15'-monooxygenase
- Relationship of carotenoids to cancer
- Lycopene and carcinogenesis
- Carotenoids and eye disease : epidemiological evidence
- Mechanistic evidence for eye diseases and carotenoids
- Heart and vascular diseases
- Carotenoids in systematic protection against sunburn
- Carotenoids and immune responses
- Therapeutic uses of carotenoids in skin photosensitivity diseases
- Potential adverse effects of beta-carotene supplementation in cigarette smokers and heavier drinkers
- Carotenoids: looking forward