Combining the Dynamic TNO-Gastrointestinal Tract System with a Caco-2 Cell Culture Model: Application to the Assessment of Lycopene and α-Tocopherol Bioavailability from a Whole Food

Déat, Emmanuelle; Blanquet‐Diot, Stéphanie; Jarrige, Jean‐François; Denis, Sylvain; Beyssac, Eric; Alric, Monique

doi:10.1021/jf902392a

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Combining the Dynamic TNO-Gastrointestinal Tract System with a Caco-2 Cell Culture Model: Application to the Assessment of Lycopene and α-Tocopherol Bioavailability from a Whole Food

Published in Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry • Nov 9, 2009

Authors:

Emmanuelle Déat

Stéphanie Blanquet‐Diot

Jean‐François Jarrige

Abstract

To exert their health effect, phytochemicals such as carotenoids and vitamin E have to be bioavailable. We investigated the digestive stability and intestinal absorption of lycopene and alpha-tocopherol from a whole food containing red tomatoes and sunflower oil using, for the first time, the dynami...

Subject

Bioavailability

Caco-2

Lycopene

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