Carotenoids Volume 5: Nutrition and Health /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Britton, George (Editor), Pfander, Hanspeter (Editor), Liaaen-Jensen, Synnøve (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2009.
• Series: Carotenoids ; 5
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Human physiology.; Immunology.; Pharmacology.; Food > Biotechnology.; Nutrition.; Chemistry/Food Science, general.; Food Science.; Human Physiology.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.

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 vi...

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.