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Manuscript received 18 August 1997. Initial reviews completed 12 October 1997. Revision accepted 1 June 1998.
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Department of Nutritional Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan; * Division of Adult Health, National Institute of Health and Nutrition, Tokyo, Japan;
Department of Cancer Information, National Cancer Center, Tokyo Japan; and
Folkhalsan Research Center and Department of Clinical Chemistry and the ** Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
To take advantage of the various pharmacologic activities of soy bean isoflavones, more detailed studies of the absorption and excretion rates of these compounds in humans and subsequent evaluation of their bioavailabilities are required. We conducted a pharmacokinetic study of soybean isoflavones in seven healthy male volunteers. After ingestion of 60 g of kinako (baked soybean powder, containing 103 µmol daidzein and 112 µmol genistein), changes of the isoflavone and metabolite concentrations in plasma, urine and feces were measured by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The plasma concentration of genistein increased after 2 h and reached its highest value of 2.44 ± 0.65 µmol/L 6 h later. The plasma concentration of daidzein peaked at 1.56 ± 0.34 µmol/L at the same time, but it was always lower than that of genistein. Peak plasma concentration of O-desmethylangolensin (O-DMA) and equol appeared after the daidzein peak in four and two subjects, respectively. In contrast with plasma, daidzein was the main component in urine. Urinary daidzein excretion started to increase shortly after the rise in its plasma concentration and reached 2.4 µmol/h 8 h after ingestion of kinako. Genistein excretion in urine paralleled that of daidzein, but the value at 6 h was about half (1.1 µmol/h). The majority of ingested isoflavones after ingestion of kinako were recovered on d 2 or 3 in the feces. Total recovery of daidzein, O-DMA and equol from urine and feces was 54.7%, calculated from daidzein intake; 20.1% of administered genistein was recovered as genistein. The half-lives of plasma genistein and daidzein were 8.36 and 5.79 h, respectively. The individual plasma and urinary concentrations of equol and O-DMA were quite variable; subjects were classified as high and low metabolizers. The high plasma concentration of isoflavones for at least several hours after a single ingestion of soy protein suggests that these compounds may interact with macromolecules and have biological effects.
Key words: phytoestrogen, genistein, daidzein, humans, kinetics.
The Journal of Nutrition Vol. 128 No. 10 October 1998,
pp. 1710-1715
Copyright ©1998 by the American Society for Nutritional Sciences
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