Common features in the pathways of absorption and metabolism of flavonoids

Phytochemicals: Mechanisms of Action

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 21-33

  Williamson, Gary ^a  

^a NESTLÉ RESEARCH CENTER   (Switzerland)

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