β-Cryptoxanthin exerts greater cardioprotective effects on cardiac ischemia-reperfusion injury than astaxanthin by attenuating mitochondrial dysfunction in mice

• Main Authors: Pongkan W., Takatori O., Ni Y., Xu L., Nagata N., Chattipakorn S., Usui S., Kaneko S., Takamura M., Sugiura M., Chattipakorn N., Ota T.
• Format: Journal
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85021920920&origin=inward; http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/41152
• Institution: Chiang Mai University

© 2017 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. Scope: β-Cryptoxanthin and astaxanthin are antioxidant carotenoid pigments that inhibit lipid peroxidation as potently as vitamin E. We hypothesized that acute treatment with β-cryptoxanthin and astaxanthin causes similar reductions in the siz...