Green tea extracts and acute liver failure: The need for caution in their use and diagnostic assessment [1]

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1067-

  Jimenez Saenz, Manuel ^a   Martinez Sanchez, Carmen ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN MACARENA   (Spain)

^b Biology Section Apdo 863 E 41080   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN TEA EXTRACT; PROGESTERONE; XENOBIOTIC AGENT;

ACUTE HEPATITIS; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG CONTROL; DRUG RECHALLENGE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; JAUNDICE; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE MIGRATION; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER NECROSIS; LIVER TOXICITY; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIDE EFFECT; TOXIC HEPATITIS;

CAMELLIA SINENSIS; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PLANT EXTRACTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34547474573     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21127     Document Type: Letter

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