Insights into the metabolism and microbial biotransformation of dietary flavan-3-ols and the bioactivity of their metabolites

Food and Function

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 233-253

  Monagas, Maria ^a   Urpi Sarda, Mireia ^b   Sánchez Patán, Fernando ^a   Llorach, Rafael ^b   Garrido, Ignacio ^a   Gómez Cordovés, Carmen ^a   Andres Lacueva, Cristina ^b   Bartolomé, Begoña ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE FERMENTACIONES INDUSTRIALES CSIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT PROPERTIES; BIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES; CATABOLIC PATHWAY; COLONIC MICROBIOTA; CONDENSED TANNINS; DEGREE OF POLYMERIZATION; FLAVAN-3-OLS; GLUCURONIC ACIDS; HEALTH EFFECTS; HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT COMPOUNDS; IN-VITRO BIOACTIVITY; IN-VIVO; METHYL ETHERS; PHASE II; PHENOLIC ACIDS; PHENOLIC METABOLITES; POLYPHENOLS; PROANTHOCYANIDINS; SIGNALLING PATHWAYS; SMALL INTESTINE; SULFATE ESTERS;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; BIOACTIVITY; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOMOLECULES; BODY FLUIDS; ESTERS; ETHERS; GLUCOSE; HEALTH; METABOLITES; OLIGOMERS; ORGANIC ACIDS; PHENOLS; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERS;

METABOLISM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

FLAVAN 3 OL; FLAVAN-3-OL; FLAVONOID; PROANTHOCYANIDIN; XENOBIOTIC AGENT;

BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; INTESTINE; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; METABOLISM; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

BIOTRANSFORMATION; FLAVONOIDS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL ABSORPTION; INTESTINES; METAGENOME; PROANTHOCYANIDINS; XENOBIOTICS;

EID: 79951609639     PISSN: 20426496     EISSN: 2042650X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c0fo00132e     Document Type: Review

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