In vitro metabolism of plant lignans: New precursors of mammalian lignans enterolactone and enterodiol

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 3178-3186

  Heinonen, Satu ^a,b   Nurmi, Tarja ^a   Liukkonen, Kirsi ^c   Poutanen, Kaisa ^c   Wähälä, Kristiina ^b   Deyama, Takeshi ^d   Nishibe, Sansei ^e   Adlercreutz, Herman ^a  

^a FOLKHÄLSAN RESEARCH CENTER   (Finland)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d Yomeishu Seizo Co Ltd   (Japan)

^e HEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF HOKKAIDO   (Japan)

Author keywords

7 hydroxymatairesinol; Arctigenin; Enterodiol; Enterolactone; Isolariciresinol; Lariciresinol; Lignans; Mammalian lignans; Matairesinol; Phytoestrogens; Pinoresinol; Secoisolariciresinol; Syringaresinol

Indexed keywords

ARCTIGENIN; ENTERODIOL; ENTEROLACTONE; LIGNAN DERIVATIVE; MATAIRESINOL; PINORESINOL; SECOISOLARICIRESINOL; SYRINGARESINOL;

ARTICLE; ELECTRODE; FECES MICROFLORA; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VITRO STUDY; MAMMAL; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; NORMAL HUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; FECES; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; LIGNANS; PLANT EXTRACTS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0034853059     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf010038a     Document Type: Article

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