Role of Antioxidant Lycopene in Cancer and Heart Disease

By A. Rao, S. Agarwal. Journal of the American College of Nutrition, 2000

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Subfields: Biochemistry, Nutrition and Dietetics, Organic Chemistry

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Citations in the corpus

• Carotenoids and human health. (2007, background): “Although the most prominent geometric isomers of ycopene in plants are the all-trans, in human plasma, lycopene s present as an isomeric mixture containing 50% of the total ycopene as cis isomer [39].”
• Role of ROS and Nutritional Antioxidants in Human Diseases (2018, background): “Moreover, nutrients such as vitamins and minerals can reduce cancer risk by eliciting antioxidant action, inhibiting proliferation of cancerous cells, maintaining DNA methylation, and promoting cell-cycle arrest (Pathak et al., 2003; Rayman, 2005).”
• Carotenoids Functionality, Sources, and Processing by Supercritical Technology: A Review (2016, background): “Among a series ofmeasured carotenoids, lycopenewas shown to be one of themost effective antioxidants andmay donate electrons to neutralize the singlet oxygen molecules and other oxidizing molecules before they affect the cells [50, 51], with twice the antioxidant activity when compared to β-carotene”
• Transgenic tomato cv. Pusa Uphar expressing a bacterial mannitol-1-phosphate dehydrogenase gene confers abiotic stress tolerance (2010, background): “Lycopene is a powerful antioxidant and protects humans from free radicals that degrade many parts of the body; lycopene is also known to prevent cancer (Gerster 1997; Rao and Agarwal 2000).”
• Tissue Culture Studies of Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) (2004, background): “Lycopene is the most powerful antioxidant in the carotenoid family and it protects humans from free radicals that degrade many parts of the body; lycopene is also known to prevent cancer (Block et al., 1992; Gerster, 1997; Rao and Agarwal, 2000).”