Publications by authors named "Christine A Williams"
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- Smoking affects levels of good and bad cholesterol and fat in the blood, but we don't know if genetics play a role in how smoking influences these levels.
- Researchers studied a lot of people (over 133,000) to see if genes and smoking together affect cholesterol and triglycerides, finding 13 new gene locations related to these fats.
- It's important to include different groups of people in research, especially when looking at how lifestyle choices like smoking interact with genes, to discover new things.
More than 450 new flavonoid structures, reported from January 2001 until December 2003, are reviewed. They comprise anthocyanidins, flavones, flavonols, chalcones, dihydrochalcones, aurones, flavanones and dihydroflavonols, both as aglycones and as glycosides. The biological activity of some of the compounds is briefly discussed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe identification of lipophilic flavones and flavonols using a combination of high performance liquid chromatography, thin layer chromatography and UV spectral analysis is discussed. Data are provided for the flavones, apigenin, luteolin and tricetin and twelve of their methyl ethers, 8-hydroxyluteolin, 6-hydroxyluteolin and scutellarein and fourteen of their methyl ethers, and some 6,8-dihydroxyapigenin and 6,8-dihydroxyluteolin derivatives. Data for some forty two flavonols with extra 6- and/or 8-hydroxylation, mostly 6-hydroxykaempferol and quercetagetin derivatives, are also presented.
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