The Role of Carotenoids in Health and Disease: From Molecular Mechanism to Clinical Significance
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Bioactives and Nutraceuticals".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2020) | Viewed by 19023
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the last 5 years, over 12,000 scientific papers on ‘carotenoids’ have been published. This is an outstanding number of publications, so we can readily understand how important carotenoids are.
Carotenoid deficiencies are associated with the pathogenesis of a wide range of diseases—obesity-related diseases such as insulin resistance, diabetes, NASH/NAFLD and cardiovascular diseases, cancers, and neurodegenerative diseases. By contrast, both preclinical and clinical studies have shown that supplementation or administration of carotenoids such as β-carotene, lycopene, β-cryptoxanthin, and astaxanthin has preventive and therapeutic effects on diseases.
In this Special Issue of IJMS, the research topic is to highlight the carotenoids as bioactives and nutraceuticals for health and disease. Authors are invited to submit their work on the molecular and biochemical mechanisms of carotenoids that contribute to human health and control disease, considering both basic or preclinical and clinical settings. Original research articles and review articles related to any aspects of biochemistry, molecular biology, pharmacology, physiology, and pathology in this topic are welcome.
Prof. Dr. Tsuguhito Ota
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Carotenoid
- Lycopene
- β-carotene
- Astaxanthin
- Obesity and Diabetes
- NASH/NAFLD
- Cardiovascular disease
- Cancers
- Neurodegenerative disease
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