Site-specific concentrations of carotenoids in adipose tissue: relations with dietary and serum carotenoid concentrations in healthy adults
Open Access
- 1 September 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier BV in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- Vol. 90 (3), 533-539
- https://doi.org/10.3945/ajcn.2009.27712
Abstract
Background: Dietary carotenoids are related to a decreased risk of certain diseases. Serum and adipose tissue carotenoid concentrations are used as biomarkers of intake.This publication has 36 references indexed in Scilit:
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