Biotransformation of fucoxanthinol into amarouciaxanthin a in mice and HepG2 cells: Formation and cytotoxicity of fucoxanthin metabolites

Drug Metabolism and Disposition

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 205-211

  Asai, Akira ^a   Sugawara, Tatsuya ^a   Ono, Hiroshi ^a   Nagao, Akihiko ^a  

^a NATIONAL FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMAROUCIAXANTHIN A; CAROTENOID; FUCOXANTHIN; FUCOXANTHINOL; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XANTHINE; XANTHOPHYLL;

ALGA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER INHIBITION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRAIN HEPG2; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOTOXICITY; DEHYDROGENATION; DIET; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG HYDROLYSIS; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG TRANSFORMATION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IC 50; ISOMERIZATION; LIVER CELL CULTURE; LIVER HOMOGENATE; LIVER MICROSOME; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BETA CAROTENE; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICROSOMES, LIVER; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; XANTHOPHYLLS;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; PHAEOPHYCEAE;

EID: 0842304213     PISSN: 00909556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/dmd.32.2.205     Document Type: Article

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