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Properties of Carotenoids in Fish Fitness: A Review
Carotenoids, one of the most common types of natural pigments, can influence the colors of living organisms. More than 750 kinds of carotenoids have been identified. Generally, carotenoids occur in organisms at low levels.
Toshiki Nakano, Geert Wiegertjes
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Carotenoids are a kind of fat-soluble natural pigments widely found in fruits and vegetables, having a variety of functional properties. Generally, the bioavailability of carotenoids in fruits and vegetables is low, and different processing methods will ...
Jinyan YANG +5 more
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Carotenoids are isoprenoid pigments used by pharmaceutical, cosmetic, food and feed industry as antioxidants and colorants. Although traditional sources of carotenoids are fruits, vegetables and chemical synthesis, prospecting for alternative sinks of ...
Eugenia Vila +4 more
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Carotenoids in fish. XL. Carotenoids in fish from the Falklands region [PDF]
The authors studied, by means of column and thin layer chromatography, the occurrence of various carotenoids in 8 fish species caught off Falkland Islands (Dissostichus eleginoides, Genypterus blacodes, Macruronus magellanicus, Micromesistlus australis ...
B. Czeczuga, B. Kłyszejko
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Use of carotenoids in feed mixtures for poultry: a review
Carotenoids are present in ingredients of feed for poultry. Their content can be further increased by supplementation of feed mixtures with synthetic or natural carotenoids.
Marounek Milan, Pebriansyah Akhir
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Effects of carotenoids on mitochondrial dysfunction [PDF]
Oxidative stress, an imbalance between pro-oxidant and antioxidant status, favouring the pro-oxidant state is a result of increased production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) or inadequate antioxidant protection.
Dias, I. H. K. +5 more
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Sea angels, Clione limacina and Paedoclione doliiformis, are small, floating sea slugs belonging to Gastropoda, and their gonads are a bright orange-red color. Sea angels feed exclusively on a small herbivorous sea snail, Limacina helicina.
Takashi Maoka +2 more
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Carotenoids play important roles in living organisms. However, animals cannot synthesize carotenoids by themselves, and they must absorb and accumulate carotenoids from their diets in which some key genes are involved. In present study, a gene named StAR-
Yunpeng Xue +5 more
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You are what you eat : Within-subject increases in fruit and vegetable consumption confer beneficial skin-color changes [PDF]
R Whitehead was funded by an ESRC Studentship.Background: Fruit and vegetable consumption and ingestion of carotenoids have been found to be associated with human skin-color (yellowness) in a recent cross-sectional study. This carotenoid-based coloration
Xiao, Dengke +14 more
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Partial quantification of pigments extracted from the zooxanthellate octocoral Sinularia flexibilis at varying irradiances [PDF]
Chlorophyll-a (chl-a) and carotenoid pigments of the zooxanthellate octocoral Sinularia flexibilis were analyzed using high performance liquid chromatography following exposure to three light intensities for over 30 days. From the coral fragments located
Lamers, P.P., Khalesi, M.K.
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