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Carotenoids and retinoids : molecular aspects and health issues /

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Other Authors: Packer, Lester
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Champaign, Ill. : AOCS Press, ©2005.
Subjects:
Carotenoids > Health aspects.
Carotenoids > Molecular aspects.
Retinoids > Health aspects.
Retinoids > Molecular aspects.
Carotenoids.
Retinoids.
Diet in disease.
Carotenoids
Retinoids
Biochemical Phenomena
Diet
Congress
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9781439822371
1439822379
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to retinoids / Sheila M. O'Byrne and William S. Blaner
  • Introduction to vitamin A: a nutritional and life cycle perspective / A. Catharine Ross
  • The essential role of vitamin A in signal transduction / Beatrice Hoyos and Ulrich Hammerling
  • Chemical and metabolic oxidation of carotenoids / Frederick Khachik
  • Gap junctional intercellular communication: carotenoids and retinoids / Wilhelm Stahl and Helmut Sies
  • Raman detection of carotenoids in human tissue / Werner Gellermann [and others]
  • Macular carotenoids in eye health / Richard A. Bone and John T. Landrum
  • Beta-carotene cleavage products impair cellular and mitochondrial functions and may lead to genotoxicity / Werner Siems [and others]
  • Formation of beta-carotene cleavage products in view of the particular conditions in inflamed lung tissue / Olaf Sommerburg [and others]
  • Biological activity of lycopene against smoke-induced lung lesions: targeting the IGF-1/IGFBP-3 signal transduction pathway / Xiang-Dong Wang
  • Retinoids and carotenoids as cancer chemopreventive agents: role of upregulated gap junctional communication / Laura M. Hix [and others]
  • Lycopene and risk of cardiovascular disease / Lauren Petr and John W. Erdman, Jr.
  • Effect of feeding and then depleting a high fruit and vegetable diet on oxidizability in human serum / Kyung-Jin Yeum [and others]
  • Mitochondria as novel targets for proapoptotic synthetic retinoids / Numsen Hail, Jr., and Reuben Lotan
  • Molecuar analysis of the vitamin A biosynthetic pathway / Johannes von Lintig
  • Regulation of transcription by antioxidant carotenoids / Yoav Sharoni [and others]
  • Vitamin A in health and disease in developing countries / Machteld van Lieshout and Clive E. West
  • Lycopene and prostate cancer / Ute C. Obermüller-Jevic and Lester Packer
  • Blood response to beta-carotene supplementation in humans: an evaluation across published studies / Klaus Kraemer [and others]
  • New horizons in carotenoid research / Helmut Sies and Wilhelm Stahl
  • Carotenoids and cardiovascular disease / J. Michael Gaziano and Howard D. Sesso
  • Safety on beta-carotene / Norman I. Krinsky.

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