Composition of polyphenols in fresh tea leaves and associations of their oxygen-radical-absorbing capacity with antiproliferative actions in fibroblast cells

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1387-1394

  Lin, Yu Li ^a   Juan, I Ming ^b   Chen, Ying Ling ^b   Liang, Yu Chih ^a   Lin, Jen Kun ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Taiwan Tea Experiment Station   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Antioxidative effect; Antiproliferative effect; EGCG; Polyphenols; Tea water extracts

Indexed keywords

CAMELLIA SINENSIS;

EID: 0001619794     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf950652k     Document Type: Article

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