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Pigmentos carotenoides: consideraciones estructurales y fisioquímicas

Authors: Meléndez-Martínez, Antonio J; Vicario, Isabel M; Heredia, Francisco J;

Pigmentos carotenoides: consideraciones estructurales y fisioquímicas

Abstract

Los pigmentos carotenoides constituyen un grupo de compuestos ubicuos en la naturaleza que realizan una serie de funciones que los hacen especiales. Así, son considerados compuestos indispensables para la vida, fundamentalmente debido a las diferentes funciones que llevan a cabo en relación con la fotosíntesis tal y como se conoce hoy en día. Durante muchos años, la importancia nutricional de los carotenoides se debió a que algunos de ellos poseen actividad provitamínica A, si bien el que el interés por estos isoprenoides se haya multiplicado en los últimos años se ha debido a una gran variedad de estudios que parecen indicar que actúan como antioxidantes y que podrían ser beneficiosos para la prevención de diversas enfermedades crónicas humanas no transmisibles, si bien existe todavía cierta controversia al respecto. En cualquier caso, las funciones y efectos debidos a estos pigmentos se deben a sus propiedades fisico-químicas y que éstas a su vez son consecuencia de su estructura química. Debido a las variadas acciones beneficiosas de las que son responsables, y sobre todo a su importancia nutricional, el objetivo fundamental de esta revisión es la descripción de dichas caracteríticas, cuyo conocimiento es indispensable para tener una visión global de los diferentes roles que desempeñan y para el diseño de nuevos estudios

Carotenoid are ubiquitous compounds serving a series of functions that make them special. Thus, they are regarded as essential compounds for life mainly due to the different roles they perform in photosynthesis as we currently know it. For many years, the nutritional relevance ot carotenoids was due to some of them exhibiting vitamin A activity, although theinterest in these pigments has expanded dramatically in the last years owing to a large variety of surveys that seem to indicate that they are antioxidant and may be beneficial for the prevention of several chronic non-transmissible human diseases, albeit there is some controversy in this regard. In any case, it is clear that the different functions and effects attributed to these isoprenoids stem from their physical and chemical properties, the latter being due to their chemical structure. Due to the diverse benefitial actions carotenoids are responsible for and, above all, to their nutritional importance, the main objective of this review is to describe such features, whose knowledge is indispensable to have a holistic view of the different roles they play and for the design of new studies

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spectroscopy, pigmentos, propiedades fisicoquímicas, Nutrition. Foods and food supply, QH301-705.5, pigments, Carotenoides, carotenoids, physicochemical properties, espectroscopia, Carotenoids, estructura química, chemical structure, spectrophotometry, TX341-641, espectroforometría, Biology (General)

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