Influences of carotenoid supplementation on the integrated antioxidant system of a free living endangered passerine, the hihi (Notiomystis cincta)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 149-154

  Ewen, John G ^a   Thorogood, Rose ^b   Karadas, Filiz ^c   Pappas, Athanasios C ^d   Surai, Peter F ^d  

^a ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c YUZUNCU YIL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Carotenoids; Conservation; Egg yolk; Plasma; Retinol; Selenium; Vitamin E

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANT; GAMMA TOCOPHEROL; RETINOL; SELENIUM; XANTHOPHYLL; ZEAXANTHIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG YOLK; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLASMA; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; NOTIOMYSTIS CINCTA; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 32044473778     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2005.11.006     Document Type: Article

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