Consumption of green tea or green tea products: Is there an evidence for antioxidant effects from controlled interventional studies?

Phytomedicine

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 903-915

  Ellinger, S ^a   Muller N ^a   Stehle, P ^a   Ulrich Merzenich, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antioxidant capacity; Flavanols; Green tea; Intervention studies; Oxidative stress

Indexed keywords

CATECHIN; EPICATECHIN GALLATE; FLAVANOL DERIVATIVE; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; MALONALDEHYDE; WATER;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DNA DAMAGE; EX VIVO STUDY; HEART PROTECTION; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERVENTION STUDY; LIPID OXIDATION; LIPID PEROXIDATION; META ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SMOKING HABIT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TEA;

ANTIOXIDANTS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CATECHIN; DNA DAMAGE; FEMALE; FLAVONOLS; HUMANS; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIPOPROTEINS, LDL; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SMOKING; TEA;

EID: 80051879284     PISSN: 09447113     EISSN: 1618095X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.phymed.2011.06.006     Document Type: Article

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