Redox properties of tea polyphenols and related biological activities

Antioxidants and Redox Signaling

Volumn 7, Issue 11-12, 2005, Pages 1704-1714

  Sang, Shengmin ^a   Hou, Zhe ^a   Lambert, Joshua D ^a   Yang, Chung S ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; EPICATECHIN GALLATE; EPIGALLOCATECHIN; EPIGALLOCATECHIN GALLATE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; PLANT EXTRACT; POLYPHENOL DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITOR; SUPEROXIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 1;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER PREVENTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DRUG ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXYGEN TENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TEA;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; APOPTOSIS; FLAVONOIDS; HUMANS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHENOLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TEA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 28844488778     PISSN: 15230864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ars.2005.7.1704     Document Type: Review

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