Antioxidative activities of a mycosporine-like amino acid, porphyra-334

Fisheries Science

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1166-1172

  Tao, Cen ^a,b   Sugawara, Tatsuya ^a   Maeda, Sayaka ^a   Wang, Xichang ^b   Hirata, Takashi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHANGHAI OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Lipid oxidation; Mycosporine like amino acid; Porphyra 334; Singlet oxygen; Tocopherol

Indexed keywords

PORPHYRA; PORPHYRA UMBILICALIS;

EID: 53349108068     PISSN: 09199268     EISSN: 14442906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1444-2906.2008.01636.x     Document Type: Article

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