R. Lakshminarayana

Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology & Biotechnology
Bangalore University
India

Academician Food and Nutrition
Biography

Dr. R. Lakshminarayana is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology & Biotechnology, Bangalore University, Bangalore. He completed Ph.D in Biochemistry from University of Mysore, Mysore in the year of 2007. Dr. Lakshminarayana is having more than 20 International Publications in peer reviewed scientific journals with high impact factor. He is a Life member of International carotenoid society.

Research Intrest

Nutritional biology

List of Publications
B.P. Arathi, P.R. Sowmya, K.Vijay, V.Baskaran, R. Lakshminarayana*. Enhanced cytotoxic and apoptosis inducing activity of lycopene oxidation products in different cancer cell lines Food Chem Toxicol. 2016.
P.R. Sowmya, B.P. Arathi, K.Vijay, V.Baskaran, R. Lakshminarayana*. A keto-carotenoid astaxanthin from shrimp efficiently inhibits MCF-7 cells proliferation synergistically with β- carotene and lutein (Abstract). FEBS Journal. 283 (Suppl. 1) (2016) 58–123.
K.Vijay, R. Sowmya, B.P. Arathi, R. Lakshminarayana*. Evaluation of anti-inflammatory and anti-proliferative effect of hydroxy-, keto-, and epoxy-carotenoids in Raw 264.7 and HL-60 cells. J Food Chem Nanotechnol. (Accepted).2016

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