Dietary lignans are phyto-oestrogens that possibly influence human health. The present review deals with lignan bioavailability, the study of which is crucial to determine to what extent metabolism, absorption and excretion of lignans alter their biological properties. Since intestinal bacteria play a major role in lignan conversion, for instance by producing the enterolignans enterodiol and en...

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matrix metalloproteinases (mmps) play an important role in gastric cancer (gc). accumulated evidence suggests that functional mmp-1 and mmp-7 gene polymorphisms are associated with several tumors. the aim of this study was to investigate two single nucleotide polymorphisms, mmp-1 -1607 1g/2g and mmp-7 -181 a/g, and their potential relationship with gc. we examined 246 gc  patients and 252 age-a...

background: it has been suggested that nutrition might play a role in the etiology of multiple sclerosis (ms). however, dietary patterns associated with ms risk are unknown. this study was conducted to compare the dietary patterns of patients with ms and healthy controls to find the relationship between dietary patterns and ms. methods: usual dietary intake of 75 women with relapsing/remitting ...

it has been suggested that single nucleotide polymorphisms (snps) in genes involved in toll-like receptors (tlrs) pathway may exhibit broad effects on function of this network and might contribute to a range of human diseases. however, the extent to which these variations affect tlr signaling is not well understood. in this study, we adopted a bioinformatics approach to predict the consequences...