| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pharmaceutical material or a food material which contains a carotene-oxidized derivative derived from a land animal, a land plant, or a microorganism, as an active ingredient and can ameliorate muscle tonus, can alleviate muscular fatigue, or can prevent muscular contracture.SOLUTION: The invention provides a muscle tonus ameliorating agent, a muscle fatigue alleviating agent, and a muscle contracture preventive agent that contain, as an active ingredient, at least one or more kinds of lutein, zeaxanthin, crocin, spheroidene, violaxanthin, torularhodinaldehyde, torularhodin, crocetin, bixin, azafrin, β-carotenone, eschscholtzxanthin, rhodoxanthin, decaprenoxanthin that are carotene-oxidized derivatives containing at least one of a hydroxyl group, a carbonyl group, and an ether group.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2 |
