Carotenoid intake does not affect immune-stimulated oxidative burst in greenfinches
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Carotenoid intake does not affect immune-stimulated oxidative burst in greenfinches.
Carotenoid-based integument colouration is extremely widespread in the animal kingdom. It has been hypothesized that carotenoid colouration is used for communicating the health status of the bearers because carotenoids are efficient immunomodulators or antioxidants. However, the latter argument has been recently debated and the mechanisms by which carotenoids modulate immunity or oxidative bala...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Experimental Biology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1477-9145,0022-0949
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.062182