Beneficial effects of green tea: A literature review

Chinese Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Chacko, Sabu M ^a   Thambi, Priya T ^a   Kuttan, Ramadasan ^b   Nishigaki, Ikuo ^a  

^a NPO International Laboratory of Biochemistry   (Japan)

^b AMALA CANCER RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ASCORBIC ACID; BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; CATECHIN; DRUG METABOLIZING ENZYME; EPIGALLOCATECHIN GALLATE; FLAVONOID; HERBACEOUS AGENT; METAL ION; PLACEBO; POLYPHENOL;

ADENOVIRUS INFECTION; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PREVENTION; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON CANCER; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIARRHEA; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG METABOLISM; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD INTAKE; HEART PROTECTION; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; INSECT STING; KIDNEY CANCER; LIVER TOXICITY; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG CANCER; MAXIMUM PLASMA CONCENTRATION; MOUTH CANCER; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPROTECTION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PANCREAS CANCER; PARKINSON DISEASE; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SMALL INTESTINE CANCER; STOMACH CANCER; TEA; TYPHOID FEVER; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 77950529178     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1749-8546-5-13     Document Type: Review

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