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Relationship of serum carotenoids and retinol with anaemia among pre-school children in the northern mountainous region of Vietnam.

Straightforward approach to the discrimination of (4R)- and (4S)-beta-isocryptoxanthin from a conformationally insensitive CD band.

Molecular cloning and functional expression analysis of a new gene encoding geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthase from hazel (Corylus avellana L. Gasaway).

Nitritalea halalkaliphila gen. nov., sp. nov., an alkaliphilic bacterium of the family 'Cyclobacteriaceae', phylum Bacteroidetes.

Genomic analysis and gene structure of the plant carotenoid dioxygenase 4 family: a deeper study in Crocus sativus and its allies.

Hepatoprotection by carotenoids in isoniazid-rifampicin induced hepatic injury in rats.

Crocin attenuates cisplatin-induced renal oxidative stress in rats.

Sub-acute effects of diazinon on biochemical indices and specific biomarkers in rats: protective effects of crocin and safranal.

Lycopene and chemotherapy toxicity.

Invited review: Annatto usage and bleaching in dairy foods.

Serum carotenoid, tocopherol and retinol concentrations and breast cancer risk in the E3N-EPIC study.

Identification of excited-state energy transfer and relaxation pathways in the peridinin-chlorophyll complex: an ultrafast mid-infrared study.

Light regulation to chlorophyll synthesis and plastid development of the chlorophyll-less golden-leaf privet.

Processing of tomato: impact on in vitro bioaccessibility of lycopene and textural properties.

Photoprotection by carotenoid pigments in the yeast Rhodotorula mucilaginosa: the role of torularhodin.

Potential of Crocus sativus (saffron) and its constituent, crocin, as hypolipidemic and antioxidant in rats.

Overexpression of the rice carotenoid cleavage dioxygenase 1 gene in Golden Rice endosperm suggests apocarotenoids as substrates in planta.

Antioxidant status of elite athletes remains impaired 2 weeks after a simulated altitude training camp.

Simulated microgravity alters growth and microcystin production in Microcystis aeruginosa (cyanophyta)

Effects of exogenous salicylic acid pre-treatment on cadmium toxicity and leaf lipid content in Linum usitatissimum L.