Astaxanthin: sources, extraction, stability, biological activities and its commercial applications--a review.

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Published in Mar Drugs on January 07, 2014

Authors

Ranga Rao Ambati1, Siew Moi Phang2, Sarada Ravi3, Ravishankar Gokare Aswathanarayana4

Author Affiliations

1: Institute of Ocean and Earth Sciences, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia. arangarao@um.edu.my.
2: Institute of Ocean and Earth Sciences, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia. phang@um.edu.my.
3: Institute of Ocean and Earth Sciences, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia. sarada_ravi@yahoo.com.
4: Institute of Ocean and Earth Sciences, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia. rgokare@yahoo.co.in.

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