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bioflavanol

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Etymology

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From bio- +‎ flavanol.

Noun

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bioflavanol (plural bioflavanols)

  1. (biochemistry) A naturally-occurring flavanol
    • 2015 August 4, Jubie S., Dhanabal S. P., Chaitanya M. V. N. L., “Isolation of methyl gamma linolenate from spirulina platensis using flash chromatography and its apoptosis inducing effect”, in BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine[1], volume 15, →DOI:
      The experiments, each were carried out each in triplicate and the results are tabulated in Table 1 and compared with the standard drug Rutin (Fig. 7 ), a bioflavanol which is a well established promising anticancer agent and its mechanism may be due to the induction of apoptosis [ 21 ].