Bioavailability of α-tocopherol stereoisomers in rats depends on dietary doses of all-rac- or RRR-α-tocopheryl acetate

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 477-487

  Jensen, Søren K ^a   Nørgaard, Jan V ^a   Lauridsen, Charlotte ^a  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Tocopherol stereoisomers; Absorption; Bioavailability; Biodiscrimination; Rats; Vitamin E

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL DERIVATIVE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG LIVER LEVEL; DRUG TISSUE LEVEL; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; RAT; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; SPLEEN; STEREOISOMERISM;

ABSORPTION; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; DIET; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPLEEN; STEREOISOMERISM; VITAMIN E;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33645545314     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: 14752662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/BJN20051667     Document Type: Article

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