Therapeutic Potentials and Applications of Folic Acid and Beta Carotene

Abstract

The present review is based mainly on papers published between 2000 and 2020 and gives information about the properties of the Folic Acid and Beta Carotene in chemical and biological systems and its possible role in preventing several diseases. The main aim of this report is to highlight its role as an immunopathological applications, also reported are bioactive properties that may influence the development of foam cells and protection against endothelial cell damage.

Disease Prevention and Treatment Using β-Carotene: the Ultimate Provitamin A

“…In fact, no increase in serum retinol level was found even after long-term β-carotene supplementation in people with already adequate levels of vitamin A (Nierenberg et al 1997 ). For prolonged serum and tissue accumulation of β-carotene, its administration must be with dietary fats (Kwatra and Modi 2020 ). However, people who smoke are better not subjected to high supplementations of β-carotene as this might put them at higher risk of lung cancer and an enhanced chance of mortality (Bohn et al 2019 ).…”