Intracellular uptake of (-)epicatechin by human erythrocytes as a function of human age

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 944-946

  Maurya, Pawan Kumar ^a   Prakash, Siya ^a  

^a AMITY UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

( )epicatechin; erythrocyte; human aging

Indexed keywords

EPICATECHIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG UPTAKE; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; VEIN PUNCTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANTIOXIDANTS; CAMELLIA SINENSIS; CATECHIN; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; TEA;

EID: 79957847289     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: 10991573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.3343     Document Type: Article

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