A new mammalian lignan precursor, asarinin

Food Chemistry

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 895-899

  Jin, Jong Sik ^a,b   Hattori, Masao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asarinin; Enterolactone; Lignans; Sesamin

Indexed keywords

ASARININ; CHIRAL HPLC; ENTEROLACTONE; LIGNANS; MAMMALIAN LIGNANS; MEDICINAL PLANTS; MICROFLORA; PLANT LIGNANS; SESAMIN;

NATURAL POLYMERS;

MAMMALS;

ASARININ; ENTEROLACTONE; SESAMIN;

ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; EPIMERIZATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; INTESTINE FLORA; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; METABOLITE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 77956618976     PISSN: 03088146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2010.07.015     Document Type: Article

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