Selected phenolic compounds in cultivated plants: Ecologic functions, health implications, and modulation by pesticides

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 107, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1999, Pages 109-114

  Daniel, Otto ^a   Meier, Matthias Samuel ^a   Schlatter, Josef ^a   Frischknecht, Peter ^b  

^a FEDERAL OFFICE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Beneficial effects; Flavonoids; Furanocoumarins; Pesticides; Phenolics; Resveratrol; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

FLAVONOID; FUROCOUMARIN; HERBICIDE; INSECTICIDE; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; PESTICIDE; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; RESVERATROL;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; DIETARY INTAKE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032961423     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.99107s1109     Document Type: Article

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