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  title info:
    title: Carotenoids
    sub title: Volume 5: Nutrition and Health
  name:
    name part: Britton, George.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Pfander, Hanspeter.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Liaaen-Jensen, Synnøve.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: sz
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXXVI, 431 p. 51 illus., 7 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: More than twenty years after the idea of this Carotenoids book series was first discussed, we finally reach the end of the project with Volume 5, which covers the functions and actions of carotenoids in human nutrition and health. In 1971, in Isler’s book Carotenoids, functions of carotenoids and vitamin A were covered in just two chapters. Now, thanks to technical developments and multidisciplinary approaches that make it possible to study functional processes in great detail, this subject is the most rapidly expanding area of carotenoid research, and occupies two full volumes, Volumes 4: Natural Functions and 5: Nutrition and Health. Although Volume 5 can be used as a single stand-alone volume, the two were planned as companion volumes to be used together. To understand the mechanisms of functions and actions of carotenoids, including how carotenoids may be involved in maintaining human health, requires understanding of the underlying principles, which are presented in the first part of Volume 4. The general philosophy and strategy of the series, to have expert authors review and analyse critically a particular topic and present information and give guidance on practical strategies and procedures is maintained in Volumes 4 and 5. It is also the aim that these publications should be useful for both experienced carotenoid researchers and newcomers to the field.
  table of contents: Editors’ Introduction: A Healthy Debate -- Analysis of Carotenoids in Nutritional Studies -- Carotenoids in Food -- Supplements -- Microbial and Microalgal Carotenoids as Colourants and Supplements -- Genetic Manipulation of Carotenoid Content and Composition in Crop Plants -- Absorption, Transport, Distribution in Tissues and Bioavailability -- Carotenoids as Provitamin A -- Vitamin A and Vitamin A Deficiency -- Epidemiology and Intervention Trials -- Modulation of Intracellular Signalling Pathways by Carotenoids -- Antioxidant/Pro-oxidant Actions of Carotenoids -- Carotenoids and Cancer -- Carotenoids and Coronary Heart Disease -- The Eye -- Skin Photoprotection by Carotenoids -- The Immune System -- Biological Activities of Carotenoid Metabolites -- Editors’ Assessment.
  note: edited by George Britton, Hanspeter Pfander, Synnøve Liaaen-Jensen.
  subject:
    topic: Chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Human physiology
  subject:
    topic: Immunology
  subject:
    topic: Pharmacology
  subject:
    topic: Food
    topic: Biotechnology
  subject:
    topic: Nutrition
  subject:
    topic: Chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Chemistry/Food Science, general
  subject:
    topic: Food Science
  subject:
    topic: Human Physiology
  subject:
    topic: Immunology
  subject:
    topic: Pharmacology/Toxicology
  subject:
    topic: Nutrition
  classification: QD1-999
  classification: 540
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Carotenoids ; 5
  identifier: 9783764375010
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-7501-0
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151125222332.0
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