Title: Carotenoids in health and disease
Description: "This reference studies the role of carotenoids in the prevention of chronic disease and reviews breakthrough studies from more than 40 field authorities on the latest biochemical research, as well as carotenoid absorption, transport, metabolism, and bioconversion to vitamin A - revealing the most recent findings regarding the use of carotenoids in the prevention of cancers and sunburn, as well as eye, heart, vascular, and photosensitivity diseases."--Jacket.
Subjects: Physiological effect, Preventive Medicine, Pharmacokinetics, Carotenoids, Therapeutic use, Physiology, Metabolism, Caroténoïdes, Effets physiologiques, Médecine préventive, Health aspects