Analysis of lignans in food samples-impact of sample preparation

Current Bioactive Compounds

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 156-171

  Schwartz, Heidi ^a   Sontag, Gerhard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Chromatography; Coulometric electrode array detection; Databases; Foods; Lignans; Mass spectrometry; Sample preparation

Indexed keywords

LIGNAN DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHROMATOGRAPHY; EXTRACTION; FOOD ANALYSIS; HYDROLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 80051764402     PISSN: 15734072     EISSN: 18756646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157340711796817904     Document Type: Article

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