Antioxidant activity of carotenoids: An
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Anna Iannone; Cristina Rota; Stefania Bergamini; Aldo Tomasi; Louise M. Canfield
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Article
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1998
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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beta-Carotene is thought to be a chain-breaking antioxidant, even though we have no information about the mechanism of its antioxidant activity. Using electron-spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy coupled to the spin-trapping technique, we have studied the effect of beta-carotene and lutein on the radi