A two-year, double-blind, randomized placebo-controlled trial of oral green tea polyphenols on the long-term clinical and histologic appearance of photoaging skin

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1057-1065

  Janjua, Roohina ^b   Munoz, Claudia ^b   Gorell, Emily ^b   Rehmus, Wingfield ^b   Egbert, Barbara ^b   Kern, Dale ^c   Chang, Anne Lynn S ^a,b  

^a Stanford University ^*  (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Dermatology of Nu Skin International   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATECHIN; COLLAGEN; ELASTIN; EPICATECHIN; EPICATECHIN GALLATE; EPIGALLOCATECHIN; EPIGALLOCATECHIN GALLATE; GALLOCATECHIN; MELANIN; MUCIN; PLACEBO; POLYPHENOL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; APPENDICITIS; ARM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTANEOUS PARAMETERS; DERMIS; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DNA DAMAGE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG CAPSULE; ELASTOSIS; EPIDERMIS; ERYTHEMA; FACE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GLOGAU SCORE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATION; LONG TERM CARE; LOOSE FECES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHOTOAGING; POWDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETINA DETACHMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN EXPOSURE; TEA; TELANGIECTASIA; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 67650723336     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2009.01183.x     Document Type: Article

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