Biological functions and activities of animal carotenoids

Artikel in diesem Heft

1. Preface
2. Marine carotenoids: recent progress
3. Recent progress in the synthesis of butenolide carotenoids and retinoids
4. Synthesis of optically active carotenoids: a review
5. Recent advances in the synthesis of achiral carotenoids
6. Recent progress in commercial retinoids and carotenoids
7. NMR of carotenoids: novel experimental techniques
8. Separation, identification, and quantification of carotenoids in fruits, vegetables and human plasma by high performance liquid chromatography
9. Xanthophylls as precursors of retinoids
10. Recent progress on carotenoid metabolism in animals
11. The biosynthesis of carotenoids: a progress report
12. Carotenoids in photosynthesis: structure and photochemistry
13. 13C Magic angle spinning NMR evidence for a 15,15’-Z configuration of the spheroidene chromophore in the Rhodobacter sphaeroides reaction center; synthesis of 13C- and 2H-labelled spheroidenes
14. Carotenoids in photosynthesis: absorption, transfer and dissipation of light energy
15. Carotenoid metabolism as a preparation for function
16. Biological functions and activities of animal carotenoids
17. Recent progress in the medical applications of carotenoids
18. Acyclic retinoids and cancer chemoprevention
19. 11-cis-retinal, a molecule uniquely suited for vision
20. Biochemical and photochemical analyses of retinal proteins in chicken cone cells