Astaxanthin

Clinical Studies

Commercial potential for Haematococcus microalgae as a natural source of astaxanthin.

Dietary beta-carotene and astaxanthin but not canthaxanthin stimulate splenocyte function in mice.

Kinetics and mechanism of the primary steps of degradation of carotenoids by acid in homogeneous solution.

Diet explains interpopulation variation of plasma carotenoids and skin pigmentation in nestling white storks.

Treatment of H. pylori infected mice with antioxidant astaxanthin reduces gastric inflammation, bacterial load and modulates cytokine release by splenocytes.

Exogenously incorporated ketocarotenoids in large unilamellar vesicles. Protective activity against peroxidation.

Resonance raman spectroscopy and quantum chemical modeling studies of protein-astaxanthin interactions in alpha-crustacyanin (major blue carotenoprotein complex in carapace of lobster, Homarus gammarus).

Isomerization of trans-astaxanthin to cis-isomers in organic solvents.

Isolation and functional characterisation of a novel type of carotenoid biosynthetic gene from Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous.

Hydrolysis kinetics of astaxanthin esters and stability of astaxanthin of Haematococcus pluvialis during saponification.

Treatment with thiamine hydrochloride and astaxanthine for the prevention of yolk-sac mortality in Baltic salmon fry (M74 syndrome).

Carotenoid hydroxylase from Haematococcus pluvialis: cDNA sequence, regulation and functional complementation.

Reproducibility of the separation of astaxanthin stereoisomers on Pirkle covalent L-leucine and D-phenylglycine columns.

Dynamics and stability analysis of the growth and astaxanthin production system of Haematococcus pluvialis.

Liquid chromatography-electrospray mass spectrometry of beta-carotene and xanthophylls. Validation of the analytical method.

Separation and identification of various carotenoids by C30 reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography coupled to UV and atmospheric pressure chemical ionization mass spectrometric detection.

A comparison of the anticancer activities of dietary beta-carotene, canthaxanthin and astaxanthin in mice in vivo.

Kinetic models for astaxanthin production by high cell density mixotrophic culture of the microalga Haematococcus pluvialis.

Effect of dietary supplementation with carotenoids on xenobiotic metabolizing enzymes in the liver, lung, kidney and small intestine of the rat.

Cloning and characterization of the astaxanthin biosynthetic gene encoding phytoene desaturase of Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous.