Levels of urinary isoflavones and lignan polyphenols in Japanese women

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 394-400

  Liu, Wanyang ^a,b   Tanabe, Miyako ^a   Harada, Kouji H ^a   Koizumi, Akio ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Equol producer; Isoflavone; Japanese; Lignan polyphenol; Phytoestrogen

Indexed keywords

DAIDZEIN; ENTERODIOL; ENTEROLACTONE; EQUOL; ISOFLAVONE DERIVATIVE; LIGNAN; PHYTOESTROGEN; POLYPHENOL;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; JAPANESE; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SMOKING; URINALYSIS; URINE LEVEL;

GLYCINE MAX; SESAMUM INDICUM;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; ISOFLAVONES; JAPAN; LIGNANS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYTOESTROGENS; POLYPHENOLS;

EID: 84884982723     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: 13474715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12199-013-0338-6     Document Type: Article

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