Component
Plasma lycopene cis/trans isomer profile
Plasma lycopene cis/trans isomer profile. Species, exposure and limitations are retained in each linked claim.
1 recorded relationships. Experimental role, claim status and evidence remain attached to each record.
How nutrients influence it
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Other things that act on it
Enzymes, hormones, genes, and other components with a recorded effect. These are not nutrients, so they do not count toward the arrows above. Each finding names the chapter that recorded it.
How nutrients reach it in more than one step
Chains of two or more recorded steps that end here, grouped by the nutrient they start from. Each step is a separate finding, so a chain is a route a mechanism could take, not proof that it does.
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What it does
Every recorded relationship this component is part of, grouped by its role. Plain wording comes first; the technical statement follows.
What acts on it
Modeled endogenous trans-to-cis conversion, 0.97 ± 0.25 micromol/day in the fast-turnover pool, explained cis enrichment.
Experimental context and source evidence
- evidence_span
- {"source_cache": "artifacts/lycopene-research/26561629.abstract.txt", "locator": "Primary indexed abstract; zero-based, end-exclusive Unicode character offsets", "file_sha256": "fdc01c055cd2de5fc7523b3a3f4486ea939d5d197aaf214000328194f9586682", "start_char": 0, "end_char": 2207, "text_sha256": "fdc01c055cd2de5fc7523b3a3f4486ea939d5d197aaf214000328194f9586682"}
- experimental_model
- Stable-isotope tracer and seven-compartment kinetic modeling
- exposure
- 10.2 mg carbon-13 lycopene, 82% all-trans and 18% cis
- limitations
- Small study; model-dependent pool estimates; formulation differs from food-matrix comparisons.
- nutrient_topic
- Lycopene research collection; topical membership is not evidence of a direct dietary effect. · Lycopene
- organism
- Human, eight healthy adults
- plain_language
- The body can change lycopene shape after absorption.
- primary_references
- [lycopene-p26561629] Compartmental and noncompartmental modeling of ¹³C-lycopene absorption, isomerization, and distribution kinetics in healthy adults. (2015). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26561629/ DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.114.103143
- tissue_or_cell_type
- Plasma over 28 days and modeled tissue pools
Lycopene: absorption, metabolism, nutrient connections and human outcomes (2026-09-17) · lines 221–232
AI-assisted literature curation; primary study URLs and scope retained in the document and extraction. Not publisher full text. · supports · Stable-isotope tracer and seven-compartment kinetic modeling · source_derived_draft · unverified_draft
### lycopene-postabsorptive-isomerization Modeled endogenous trans-to-cis conversion, 0.97 ± 0.25 micromol/day in the fast-turnover pool, explained cis enrichment. Condition category: normal nutrient_topic: Lycopene research collection; topical membership is not evidence of a direct dietary effect. plain_language: The body can change lycopene shape after absorption. organism: Human, eight healthy adults tissue_or_cell_type: Plasma over 28 days and modeled tissue pools experimental_model: Stable-isotope tracer and seven-compartment kinetic modeling limitations: Small study; model-dependent pool estimates; formulation differs from food-matrix comparisons. exposure: 10.2 mg carbon-13 lycopene, 82% all-trans and 18% cis evidence_span: {"source_cache": "artifacts/lycopene-research/26561629.abstract.txt", "locator": "Primary indexed abstract; zero-based, end-exclusive Unicode character offsets", "file_sha256": "fdc01c055cd2de5fc7523b3a3f4486ea939d5d197aaf214000328194f9586682", "start_char": 0, "end_char": 2207, "text_sha256": "fdc01c055cd2de5fc7523b3a3f4486ea939d5d197aaf214000328194f9586682"} [lycopene-p26561629] Compartmental and noncompartmental modeling of ¹³C-lycopene absorption, isomerization, and distribution kinetics in healthy adults. (2015). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26561629/ DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.114.103143
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The events it takes part in
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Situations it appears in
Low-supply and faulty-machinery situations recorded in the chapters where this component plays a part.
In the sources
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Open hypotheses
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