Antioxidant nutrients

Antioxidant Nutrients and Milk Quality

Milk quality is usually defined in terms of mastitis. Milk with a low somatic cell count (SCC) and is visibly normal (no clots) is considered high quality. Although these measures are clearly important, the definition of high quality milk must be expanded. To ensure a continued growing demand by consumers for dairy products, milk and dairy products must also taste good. A consumer that has a ba...

Antioxidant nutrients, atherosclerosis, and coronary heart disease.

Free radical tissue damage: protective role of antioxidant nutrients.

Highly reactive molecules called free radicals can cause tissue damage by reacting with polyunsaturated fatty acids in cellular membranes, nucleotides in DNA, and critical sulfhydryl bonds in proteins. Free radicals can originate endogenously from normal metabolic reactions or exogenously as components of tobacco smoke and air pollutants and indirectly through the metabolism of certain solvents...

Antioxidant nutrients in pregnancy: a systematic review of the literature.

CONTENTS I N T R O D U C T I O N . 176 SCOPE O F REVIEW . 178 IDENTIFICATION OF PAPERS . . 178 REVIEW CRITERIA . 178 Z I N C A N D P R E G N A N C Y O U T C O M E . . 179 BACKGROUND . 179 RESULTS . 179 Birth weight and/or intra-uterine growth retardation . 179 Zinc supplement trials . . 179 Conclusions ,from the supplement trials . 180 Cohort studies . 181 Case-control studies . 182 Conclusions...

Effect of Nutrients and Antioxidant Enzyme Activities from Microcystis aeruginosa

Microcystis aeruginosa is a major primary producer and a common toxic cyanobacterium, playing an important role in the aquatic environment (Chen et al., 2016). Microcystis aeruginosa is commonly observed in highly eutrophic lakes (Watanabe and Oishi, 1985). In recent years, surface cyanobacterial bloom occurred frequently in most large shallow lakes in China, such as Lake Taihu (Zhang et al., 2...