Component
Rhesus serum zeaxanthin concentration
Rhesus serum zeaxanthin concentration. Species, exposure and limitations are retained in each linked claim.
1 recorded relationships. Experimental role, claim status and evidence remain attached to each record.
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What it does
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What acts on it
Serum zeaxanthin rose rapidly during the first four weeks of supplementation.
Experimental context and source evidence
- availability_state
- nutrient_deficiency Imported condition classification; unverified.
- evidence_span
- {"source_cache": "artifacts/zeaxanthin-research/15326146.abstract.txt", "locator": "Primary indexed abstract; zero-based, end-exclusive Unicode character offsets", "file_sha256": "2feb9366dc3d6fc9886076332f2e4ebc33603b94b113bc130163226845f7cea2", "start_char": 0, "end_char": 1572, "text_sha256": "2feb9366dc3d6fc9886076332f2e4ebc33603b94b113bc130163226845f7cea2"}
- experimental_model
- Long-term dietary depletion followed by single-pigment repletion
- exposure
- Lifelong xanthophyll-free diet; six animals received pure zeaxanthin 2.2 mg/kg/day for 24–56 weeks
- limitations
- Extreme combined-xanthophyll depletion is not isolated human zeaxanthin deficiency or a clinical diagnostic threshold.
- nutrient_topic
- Zeaxanthin research collection; topical membership is not evidence of a direct dietary effect. · Dietary (3R,3-prime-R)-zeaxanthin
- organism
- Rhesus macaques
- plain_language
- Blood and tissue recovery followed different time courses.
- primary_references
- [zeaxanthin-p15326146] Nutritional manipulation of primate retinas, I: effects of lutein or zeaxanthin supplements on serum and macular pigment in xanthophyll-free rhesus monkeys. (2004). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15326146/ DOI: 10.1167/iovs.02-1243
- tissue_or_cell_type
- Serum and macular pigment
- trigger_kind
- nutrient_deficiency Imported condition classification; unverified.
Zeaxanthin: metabolism, signaling and nutrient connections (2026-09-17) · lines 912–923
AI-assisted literature curation; primary study URLs and scope retained in the document and extraction. Not publisher full text. · supports · Long-term dietary depletion followed by single-pigment repletion · source_derived_draft · unverified_draft
### zeaxanthin-primate-serum Serum zeaxanthin rose rapidly during the first four weeks of supplementation. Condition category: nutrient_deficiency nutrient_topic: Zeaxanthin research collection; topical membership is not evidence of a direct dietary effect. plain_language: Blood and tissue recovery followed different time courses. organism: Rhesus macaques tissue_or_cell_type: Serum and macular pigment experimental_model: Long-term dietary depletion followed by single-pigment repletion limitations: Extreme combined-xanthophyll depletion is not isolated human zeaxanthin deficiency or a clinical diagnostic threshold. exposure: Lifelong xanthophyll-free diet; six animals received pure zeaxanthin 2.2 mg/kg/day for 24–56 weeks evidence_span: {"source_cache": "artifacts/zeaxanthin-research/15326146.abstract.txt", "locator": "Primary indexed abstract; zero-based, end-exclusive Unicode character offsets", "file_sha256": "2feb9366dc3d6fc9886076332f2e4ebc33603b94b113bc130163226845f7cea2", "start_char": 0, "end_char": 1572, "text_sha256": "2feb9366dc3d6fc9886076332f2e4ebc33603b94b113bc130163226845f7cea2"} [zeaxanthin-p15326146] Nutritional manipulation of primate retinas, I: effects of lutein or zeaxanthin supplements on serum and macular pigment in xanthophyll-free rhesus monkeys. (2004). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15326146/ DOI: 10.1167/iovs.02-1243
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