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Biotechnology Reports, 2019 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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Use of carotenoids in feed mixtures for poultry: a review
Agricultura Tropica et Subtropica, 2018 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.
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Marine Drugs, 2014 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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Food Chemistry: Molecular Sciences, 2022 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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ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF NATURAL ANTHOCYANINS AND CAROTENOIDS EXTRACTED FROM SOME PLANTS AND WASTES [PDF]
Journal of Food and Dairy Sciences, 2010 In the present study, the anthocyanins and carotenoids contents in some plants, herbs and either vegetables or fruit wastes were considered. Anthocyanins were extracted from red beet roots (Beta vulgaris L.), dark roselle petals (Hibiscus sabdariffa L.)
Dalia Hikal +3 more
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Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.This review highlights advances in lightweight, lead‐free polymer nanocomposites for diagnostic X‐ray shielding. By linking filler chemistry, dispersion, architecture, and photon interaction mechanisms, it establishes structure–performance relationships guiding material design.
Aklilu G. Messele +2 more
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Carotenoids—Antioxidant Properties
Antioxidants, 2018 The carotenoid group of pigments are ubiquitous in nature and more than 600 different carotenoids have been identified and characterized [1].[...]
Andrew J. Young, Gordon L. Lowe
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Current Plant Biology, 2021 Carotenoids are long conjugated isoprenoid molecules with over 1117 identified structures, belongs to the class of hydrocarbons, involved in a range of biological processes in plants and humans.
Prashant Swapnil +5 more
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Chloroplast to chromoplast transition in tomato fruit: spectral confocalmicroscopy analyses of carotenoids and chlorophylls in isolated plastids and time-lapse recording on intact live tissue [PDF]
, 2011 During evolution, chromoplasts have emerged as plastid structures which accumulate pigments to facilitate flower pollination and seed dispersal of fleshy fruit.
Jauneau, Alain +16 more
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