To provide a selenium metabolite compound which is metabolized in living bodies and is excreted in urine, to provide a method for producing the same, to provide a method for evaluating / measuring the metabolism of the selenium compound, and to provide a method for utilizing the selenium compound as a food nutrient.
This new selenium metabolite compound excreted in urine under physiological conditions and contained in the urine only in a fine amount is isolated from the urine of a mammal, and the absolute structure of the selenium absolute is determined. The new compound is provided. The compound is 2-acetamido-1,2-dideoxy-β-D-galactopyranosyl methyl selenide, and its derivative. The whole synthesis route of the compound is established on the absolute structure of the selenium mebolite compound, and a method for producing the compound is provided. The compound can be utilized as a standard substance or the like on the evaluation / measurement of the metabolism of the selenium in a living body or as a selenium nutrient-supplying source as an essential nutrition element.
OGURA YASUMITSU
TAKAYAMA HIROMITSU
AIMI NORIO
