Jejunum, flavonoid absorption

Many studies have indieated that signifieant transfer of ingested flavonoids oeeurs from the lumen of the small intestine to the mesenterie eireulation and that extensive metabolism and eonjugation of the flavonoid oeeur diuing this transfer [2,49-56]. Isolated preparations of rat small intestine [57] have been utilized to study absorption and metabolism in the small intestine and ean provide information on events oeeurring in both the jejunum and the ileum [50,52,56,58-60]. This model (Fig. 3) allows study of the intestinal transfer of dietary... 

Table 1 Summary of the Absorption and Metabolism of Flavonoids in the Isolated Rat Jejunum Model... 

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