Antioxidant activities of carotenes and xanthophylls

FEBS Letters

Volumn 384, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 240-242

  Miller, Nicholas J ^a   Sampson, Julia ^a   Candeias, Luis P ^b   Bramley, Peter M ^c   Rice Evans, Catherine A ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MOUNT VERNON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ABTS.+; Carotene; Lycopene; Radical cation; Radical scavenger; Xanthophyll

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CAROTENE; ASTAXANTHIN; BETA CAROTENE; CANTHAXANTHIN; CAROTENOID; CRYPTOXANTHIN; LYCOPENE; RADICAL; TROLOX C; XANTHOPHYLL; ZEAXANTHIN;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

EID: 0029866963     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(96)00323-7     Document Type: Article

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