Complementary cereals and legumes for health: Synergistic interaction of sorghum flavones and cowpea flavonols against LPS-induced inflammation in colonic myofibroblasts

Molecular Nutrition and Food Research

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2017, Pages

  Agah, Shima ^a   Kim, Hyemee ^a   Mertens Talcott, Susanne U ^a   Awika, Joseph M ^a,b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Allied Blending and Ingredients   (United States)

Author keywords

Apigenin; Cereal and legume; Flavonoid; Quercetin; Synergistic interaction

Indexed keywords

APIGENIN; CYTOKINE; FLAVONE DERIVATIVE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PLANT EXTRACT; QUERCETIN;

ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CHEMISTRY; COLITIS; COLON; CYTOLOGY; DRUG POTENTIATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; SORGHUM; VIGNA;

ANIMALS; APIGENIN; CELL LINE; COLITIS; COLON; CYTOKINES; DRUG SYNERGISM; FLAVONES; HUMANS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; NF-KAPPA B; PLANT EXTRACTS; QUERCETIN; SORGHUM; VIGNA;

EID: 85016416093     PISSN: 16134125     EISSN: 16134133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mnfr.201600625     Document Type: Article

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