Effects of Dietary Lycopene Supplementation on Plasma Lipid Profile, Lipid Peroxidation and Antioxidant Defense System in Feedlot Bamei Lamb

Lycopene, a red non-provitamin A carotenoid, mainly presenting in tomato and tomato byproducts, has the highest antioxidant activity among carotenoids because of its high number of conjugated double bonds. The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of lycopene supplementation in the d...

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Main Authors: Hongqin Jiang, Zhenzhen Wang, Yong Ma, Yanghua Qu, Xiaonan Lu, Hailing Luo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Asian-Australasian Association of Animal Production Societies 2015-07-01
Series:Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.ajas.info/upload/pdf/ajas-28-7-958.pdf