Protection of humans by plant glucosinolates: Efficiency of conversion of glucosinolates to isothiocyanates by the gastrointestinal microflora

Cancer Prevention Research

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 603-611

  Fahey, Jed W ^a,b   Wehage, Scott L ^a   Holtzclaw, W David ^a   Kensler, Thomas W ^a,b,c   Egner, Patricia A ^b   Shapiro, Theresa A ^a   Talalay, Paul ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROCCOLI SPROUT EXTRACT; DITHIOCARBAMIC ACID; GLUCOSINOLATE; ISOTHIOCYANIC ACID; PLANT EXTRACT; SULFORAPHANE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ISOTHIOCYANIC ACID DERIVATIVE; THIOCARBAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PREVENTION; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG TRANSFORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTESTINE FLORA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; URINARY EXCRETION; BIOAVAILABILITY; BRASSICA; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; TIME; UNITED STATES; URINE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BALTIMORE; BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; BRASSICA; CHINA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GLUCOSINOLATES; HUMANS; ISOTHIOCYANATES; KINETICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PLANT EXTRACTS; THIOCARBAMATES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84861913629     PISSN: 19406207     EISSN: 19406215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1940-6207.CAPR-11-0538     Document Type: Article

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