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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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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You are what you eat : Within-subject increases in fruit and vegetable consumption confer beneficial skin-color changes [PDF]
, 2012 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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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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Carotenoids, tocochromanols and chlorophylls in sea buckthorn berries (Hippophae rhamnoides) and Rose Hips (Rosa sp.) [PDF]
, 2009 Consumption of fruits and berries have positive effects on human health by reducing the risk of e.g. cardiovascular diseases, age-related macular degeneration and cataracts, and different forms of cancer. These positive effects are believed to be related
Andersson, Staffan
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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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Partial quantification of pigments extracted from the zooxanthellate octocoral Sinularia flexibilis at varying irradiances [PDF]
, 2010 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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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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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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Absorption and Metabolism of Xanthophylls
Marine Drugs, 2011 Dietary carotenoids, especially xanthophylls, have attracted significant attention because of their characteristic biological activities, including anti-allergic, anti-cancer, and anti-obese actions.
Eiichi Kotake-Nara, Akihiko Nagao
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