Apocarotenoids: Emerging roles in mammals

Annual Review of Nutrition

Volumn 38, Issue , 2018, Pages 153-172

  Harrison, Earl H ^a   Quadro, Loredana ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

carotenoid oxygenases; eccentric cleavage; mammals; metabolism; nonenzymatic cleavage

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CAROTENE; APOCAROTENOID; BETA CAROTENE; CAROTENOID; ISOPRENOID; RETINOID; RETINOL; RETINOL DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DIET; FOOD ANALYSIS; HUMAN; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; CAROTENOIDS; DIET; FOOD ANALYSIS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL ABSORPTION;

EID: 85052221853     PISSN: 01999885     EISSN: 15454312     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-nutr-082117-051841     Document Type: Review

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