Carotenoids and Retinoids : Molecular Aspects and Health Issues.

Intro -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Ch 1 Introduction to Retinoids -- Ch 2 Introduction to Vitamin A: A Nutritional and Life Cycle Perspective -- Ch 3 The Essential Role of Vitamin A in Signal Transduction -- Ch 4 Chemical and Metabolic Oxidation of Carotenoids -- Ch 5 Gap Junctional Intercellular Communication: Carotenoids and Retinoids -- Ch 6 Raman Detection of Carotenoids in Human Tissue -- Ch 7 Macular Carotenoids in Eye Health -- Ch 8 B-Carotene Cleavage Products Impair Cellular and Mitochondrial Functions and May Lead to Genotoxicity -- Ch 9 Formation of B-Carotene Cleavage Products in View of the Particular Conditions in Inflamed Lung Tissue -- Ch 10 Biological Activity of Lycopene Against Smoke-Induced Lung Lesions -- Ch 11 Retinoids and Carotenoids as Cancer Chemopreventive Agents -- Ch 12 Lycopene and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease -- Ch 13 Effect of Feeding and Then Depleting a High Fruit and Vegetable Diet on Oxidizability in Human Serum -- Ch 14 Mitochondria as Novel Targets for Proapoptotic Synthetic Retinoids -- Ch 15 Molecular Analysis of the Vitamin A Biosynthetic Pathway -- Ch 16 Regulation of Transcription by Antioxidant Carotenoids -- Ch 17 Vitamin A in Health and Disease in Developing Countries -- Ch 18 Lycopene and Prostate Cancer -- Ch 19 Blood Response to B-Carotene Supplementation in Humans -- Ch 20 New Horizons in Carotenoid Research -- Ch 21 Carotenoids and Cardiovascular Disease -- Ch 22 Safety of B-Carotene -- Index.

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