Metabolism of cryptoxanthin in freshwater fish
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Metabolism of cryptoxanthin in freshwater fish.
In search of other provitamins A, the metabolism of cryptoxanthin was studied in several species of freshwater fish, i.e. Channa gachua, Labeo boga (retinol-rich) and Heteropneustes fossilis (dehydroretinol-rich). The fish were either allowed to starve for 20-25 d to make their intestines free from carotenoids and vitamin A or kept on a vitamin-A-deficient diet for 140-150 d to deplete the init...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Nutrition
سال: 1984
ISSN: 0007-1145,1475-2662
DOI: 10.1079/bjn19840124