High serum S-equol content in red clover fed ewes: The classical endocrine disruptor is a single enantiomer

Environmental Chemistry Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 154-159

  Mustonen, Eeva A ^a   Jokela, Tuija ^a   Saastamoinen, Ilkka ^a   Taponen, Juhani ^a   Taponen, Suvi ^a   Saloniemi, Hannu ^a   Wähälä, Kristiina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Chiral HPLC; Endocrine disruptors; Environmental estrogens; Fluorescence detector; Formononetin; HPLC; O demethylangolensin; S equol; Serum; Sheep

Indexed keywords

BODY FLUIDS; FLAVONOIDS; FLUORESCENCE;

CHIRAL HIGH-PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHIES; ENDOCRINE-DISRUPTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL ESTROGENS; FLUORESCENCE DETECTOR; FORMONONETIN; HIGH-PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; O-DEMETHYLANGOLENSIN; S-EQUOL; SERUM; SHEEP;

HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY;

OVIS; TRIFOLIUM PRATENSE;

EID: 33745060378     PISSN: 16103653     EISSN: 16103661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10311-005-0023-0     Document Type: Article

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