Past, present and future of green tea: From pleasant beverage to drug in pills?;Storia ed attualità del tè verde: Da bevanda voluttuaria a farmaco in compresse?

Recenti Progressi in Medicina

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 347-351

  Gensini, Gian Franco ^a,b,c   Lippi, Donatella ^d   Conti, Andrea Alberto ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE DON CARLO GNOCCHI   (Italy)

^c Centro Italiano per la Medicina Basata sulle Prove   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Evidence based medicine; Green tea; History of medicine; Methodology of clinical research; Polyphenols

Indexed keywords

GREEN TEA EXTRACT;

BEVERAGE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COFFEE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; REVIEW; TEA;

FORECASTING; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; PHYTOTHERAPY; TABLETS; TEA;

EID: 34249784796     PISSN: 00341193     EISSN: 00341193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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