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Antioxidants, 2020 Carotenoids are well known for their potent antioxidant function in the cellular system. However, in cancer cells with an innately high level of intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS), carotenoids may act as potent pro-oxidant molecules and trigger ...
Juhyun Shin +4 more
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Biosynthesis of fucoxanthin and diadinoxanthin and function of initial pathway genes in Phaeodactylum tricornutum [PDF]
, 2012 The biosynthesis pathway to diadinoxanthin and fucoxanthin was elucidated in Phaeodactylum tricornutum by a combined approach involving metabolite analysis identification of gene function.
Breitenbach, Jürgen +5 more
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Reviewing the effects of food provisioning on wildlife immunity [PDF]
, 2018 While urban expansion increasingly encroaches on natural habitats, many wildlife species capitalize on anthropogenic food resources, which have the potential to both positively and negatively influence their responses to infection.
Babayan, Simon A. +2 more
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Microalgal Carotenoids: A Review of Production, Current Markets, Regulations, and Future Direction
Marine Drugs, 2019 Microalgae produce a variety of compounds that are beneficial to human and animal health. Among these compounds are carotenoids, which are microalgal pigments with unique antioxidant and coloring properties.
L. Novoveská +5 more
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Carotenoids: biochemistry, pharmacology and treatment
British Journal of Pharmacology, 2016 Carotenoids and retinoids have several similar biological activities such as antioxidant properties, the inhibition of malignant tumour growth and the induction of apoptosis.
A. Milani +3 more
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Carotenoids - Effective Radical Scavengers for Healthy and Beautiful Skin [PDF]
, 2019 Free radicals are involved in various diseases and skin aging. To reduce and prevent this risk, our body produces antioxidants that can neutralize free radicals.
Darvin, Maxim E. +4 more
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Application of Raman Microspectroscopic and Raman imaging techniques for cell biological studies [PDF]
, 1995 Raman spectroscopy is being used to study biological molecules for some three decades now. Thanks to continuing advances in instrumentation more and more applications have become feasible in which molecules are studied in situ, and this has enabled Raman
Bakker Schut, T.C. +7 more
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Fruit over sunbed : carotenoid skin coloration is found more attractive than melanin coloration [PDF]
, 2015 Skin coloration appears to play a pivotal part in facial attractiveness. Skin yellowness contributes to an attractive appearance and is influenced both by dietary carotenoids and by melanin.
Lefevre, Carmen E, Perrett, David I
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Biophysical Journal, 1992 The apparent quantum yield of singlet-singlet spirilloxanthin-to-bacteriochlorophyll a energy transfer increases linearly with the residual spirilloxanthin content in Rhodospirillum rubrum membrane vesicles from which this carotenoid has been partially removed.
Juan M. Ramírez +2 more
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Biotechnology for Biofuels, 2018 Microalgae have drawn great attention as promising sustainable source of lipids and carotenoids. Their lipid and carotenoids accumulation machinery can be trigged by the stress conditions such as nutrient limitation or exposure to the damaging physical ...
Xiaoman Sun +4 more
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