Description
Lycopene is a carotenoid found in many red fruits and vegetables such as watermelon, pink guava, and tomato. Lycopene is a potent antioxidant. It is suggested that lycopene is used by the plant to protect against reactive oxygen species (ROS).Lycopene has been used:to analyze its chemo-preventive effects on cutaneous tumors inin vitromouse epidermal cell lineas a reference standard for quantitative high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) to analyze antioxidant capacity of endogenous carotenoids in mammalian cell linesas a reference standard in high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) to identify carotenoids from engineeredSaccharomyces cerevisiae