To measure urinary concentrations of the adherence marker compounds, urine samples were thawed at room temperature (25°C) for 2 h and diluted 10 (trans-resveratrol) or 50 (saccharin) times in methanol:water (1:1). Urine samples containing saccharin had 100 ng/mL of saccharin-d4 (CDN Isotopes) added, and were vortexed for 5 s. Samples were transferred to an autosampler vial for analysis by Agilent 1290 Infinity Ultra-HPLC (UHPLC) interfaced to a 6460 triple-quadrupole mass spectrometer (MS/MS) with electrospray ionization (ESI) via Jet Stream technology (Agilent Technologies) (15 (link)). Resveratrol metabolites were expressed as resveratrol equivalents. Recoveries for this method have been shown to be >80% at the range of concentrations used in this study.
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