Current understanding of dietary polyphenols and their role in health and disease

Current Nutrition and Food Science

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 249-263

  Pandey, Kanti Bhooshan ^a   Rizvi, Syed Ibrahim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD   (India)

Author keywords

Bioactivity; Bioavailability; Classification; Human diseases; Occurrence; Polyphenols

Indexed keywords

ANTHOCYANIN; CATECHIN; FLAVANOL DERIVATIVE; FLAVANONE DERIVATIVE; FLAVONE DERIVATIVE; FLAVONOID; GALLIC ACID; ISOFLAVONE DERIVATIVE; LIGNAN DERIVATIVE; MYRICETIN; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; POLYPHENOL DERIVATIVE; QUERCETIN; RESVERATROL; STILBENE DERIVATIVE; THEAFLAVIN;

AGING; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ASTHMA; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CANCER PREVENTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG STRUCTURE; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 74749104307     PISSN: 15734013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157340109790218058     Document Type: Review

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