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Cocoa flavanols and cardiovascular health
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Chocolate: A Heart-healthy Food? Show Me the Science!
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Cardiovascular

Chocolate Consumption and Platelet Function
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Absorption & Metabolism

Stability of the flavan-3-ols epicatechin and catechin and related dimeric procyanidins derived from cocoa
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Biological Effects

Effect of cocoa flavanols and their related oligomers on the secretion of interleukin-5 in peripheral blood mononuclear cells
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Cardiovascular

Evidence that the antioxidant flavonoids in tea and cocoa are beneficial for cardiovascular health
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Biological Effects

Flavanols and procyanidins of cocoa and chocolate inhibit growth and polyamine biosynthesis of human colonic cancer cells
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Cardiovascular

(-)-Epicatechin inhibits nitration and dimerization of tyrosine in hydrophilic as well as hydrophobic environments
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Cardiovascular

Polyphenols of cocoa: inhibition of mammalian 15-lipoxygenase
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Cardiovascular

Effects of cocoa powder and dark chocolate on LDL oxidative susceptibility and prostaglandin concentrations in humans
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Brain/Cognitive Health

Procyanidin dimer B2 [epicatechin-(4beta-8)-epicatechin] in human plasma after the consumption of a flavanol-rich cocoa
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Cardiovascular

Epicatechin selectively prevents nitration but not oxidation reactions of peroxynitrite
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Analytical Methods

Identification of procyanidins and anthocyanins in blueberries and cranberries (Vaccinium spp.) using high-performance liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry
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Chemistry

Studies in polyphenol chemistry and bioactivity. 3.(1,2) stereocontrolled synthesis of epicatechin-4alpha,8-epicatechin, an unnatural isomer of the B-type procyanidins
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Analytical Methods

Proximate, Mineral and Procyanidin Content of Certain Foods and Beverages Consumed by the Kuna Amerinds of Panama
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