Rat Test Examples

Anthocyanin glycosides with different colors are the daily dietary plant pigments they might prevent many diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, cardiac infarction, and eye insufficiency. The preventive and therapeutic properties of anthocyanins and flavonoids highly depend on absorption and metabolism in the living body after intake. 

Generally, these anthocyanins are quickly absorbed as the glycoside forms in bodies of animals and humans [42 - 47]. 

Interestingly, administrated intact anthocyanins (glycosides) could be found in plasma in rats or humans only a few minutes after their oral administration without any structural changes [42,44,45]. 

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