Green tea extract ameliorates reperfusion injury to rat livers after warm ischemia in a dose-dependent manner

Molecular Nutrition and Food Research

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 855-863

  Liang, Rui ^a,b   Nickkholgh, Arash ^a   Kern, Michael ^a   Schneider, Heinz ^c   Benzing, Steffen ^d   Zorn, Markus ^a   Büchler, Markus W ^a   Schemmer, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b DALIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HealthEcon Ltd   (Switzerland)

^d Fresenius Kabi Deutschland GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Green tea extract; Ischemia; Liver; Microcirculation; Reperfusion

Indexed keywords

PLANT EXTRACT; SCAVENGER; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CHEMISTRY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; ISCHEMIA; ISCHEMIC PRECONDITIONING; KUPFFER CELL; LIVER; METABOLISM; MICROCIRCULATION; PATHOLOGY; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT LEAF; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; REPERFUSION INJURY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TEA; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; CAMELLIA SINENSIS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; ISCHEMIC PRECONDITIONING; KUPFFER CELLS; LIVER; MICROCIRCULATION; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT LEAVES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REPERFUSION INJURY; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TEA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; WARM ISCHEMIA;

CAMELLIA SINENSIS; RATTUS;

EID: 79958052438     PISSN: 16134125     EISSN: 16134133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mnfr.201000643     Document Type: Article

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