Antioxidant Action of Carotenoids
- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Journal of Nutrition
- Vol. 119 (1), 109-111
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jn/119.1.109
Abstract
Several modes of antioxidant action of β-carotene are discussed. In particular, the focus is on the ability of β-carotene to function as a chain-breaking antioxidant in a lipid environment at physiological O2 partial pressures. This is the mode considered most likely to operate in mammalian cells.Keywords
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