GC-MS determined distribution of urinary equol producers as affected by age, gender, and repeated ingestions of soymilk.

Status of equol excretion is likely a reflection of incidence risk of sex-hormone related diseases and deserves research attention. In this study, urine samples collected from 182 volunteers after soymilk ingestion were subjected to equol quantification using GC-MS. As categorized into male, female, and both genders and each category further classified into 6 age (year) categories, namely, <20, 21 to 30, 31 to 40, 41 to 50, >51 and overall, a trend indicating that the younger age the higher equol producer ratio was observed.

Antimutagenicity of supercritical CO2 extracts of Terminalia catappa leaves and cytotoxicity of the extracts to human hepatoma cells.

Natural antimutagens may prevent cancer and are therefore of great interest to oncologists and the public at large. Phytochemicals are potent antimutagen candidates. When the Ames test was applied to examine the antimutagenic potency of supercritical carbon dioxide (SC-CO(2)) extracts of Terminalia catappa leaves at a dose of 0.

Squalene content and antioxidant activity of Terminalia catappa leaves and seeds.

Squalene was identified by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) spiking analyses in the supercritical CO(2) extracts of freeze-dried abscisic leaves of Terminalia catappa L. When the freeze-dried abscisic, senescent, mature, and immature leaves and seeds were subjected to supercritical CO(2) extraction at 40 degrees C and 3000 psi and HPLC quantitation, squalene contents were 12.29, 2.