Metabolic profiling of flavonol metabolites in human urine by liquid chromatography and tandem mass spectrometry

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 52, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 6794-6801

  Hong, Yun Jeong ^a   Mitchell, Alyson E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioavailability; Elimination; Flavonoids; Flavonol; Human; Kaempferol; Metabolism; Metabolite; Quercetin; Tandem mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

FLAVONOL; FLAVONOL DERIVATIVE; KAEMPFEROL; QUERCETIN;

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISOMER; MALE; METABOLISM; NORMAL HUMAN; REACTION ANALYSIS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; URINARY EXCRETION; URINE LEVEL;

ADULT; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DIET; FEMALE; FLAVONOLS; HEAT; HUMANS; KAEMPFEROLS; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ONIONS; QUERCETIN; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION;

ALLIUM CEPA;

EID: 7444234937     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf040274w     Document Type: Article

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