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Carotenoids: functions and fallacies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

David I. Thurnham
David I. Thurnham
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Human Nutrition Research Group, Department of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster, Coleraine BT52 1SA, Northern Ireland
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Symposium on ‘Antioxidants’
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Proceedings of the Nutrition Society , Volume 53 , Issue 1 , March 1994 , pp. 77 - 87
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Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1994

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