The apparent absorptions of isoflavone glucosides and aglucons are similar in women and are increased by rapid gut transit time and low fecal isoflavone degradation

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 134, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2534-2539

  Zheng, Van ^a   Lee, Sun Ok ^a   Verbruggen, Marian A ^b   Murphy, Patricia A ^a   Hendrich, Suzanne ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Acatris Holding BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aglucons; Bioavailability; Glucosides; Gut transit time; Isoflavones

Indexed keywords

AGLUCON; DAIDZEIN; GENISTEIN; GLYCITEIN; ISOFLAVONE; ISOFLAVONE GLUCOSIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG DEGRADATION; FEMALE; FERMENTED SOYGERM; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; NORMAL HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SOYBEAN; URINARY EXCRETION;

GLYCINE MAX;

EID: 4744375612     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jn/134.10.2534     Document Type: Conference Paper

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