Antioxidant behaviour of carotenoids highly accumulated in HepG2 cells

• Main Authors: Jaswir, Irwandi, Kobayashi, Miyuki, Koyama, Toshie, Kotake-Nara, Eiichi, Nagao, Akihiko
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2012
• Subjects: QD Chemistry
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/28710/1/Foodchem_%282012%29-AO_behaviour.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/28710/; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308814611016359#

The antioxidant behaviour of major dietary carotenoids accumulated at high concentrations in human hepatoma HepG2 cells was evaluated, in comparison with a-tocopherol. The cells that accumulated carotenoids and a-tocopherol at levels higher than the values reported in the human liver were exposed...