Green tea as a chemoprotector
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https://doi.org/10.5433/1679-0367.2005v26n2p119Keywords:
Camellia sinensis, Green Tea, Chemoprotection, Flavonoids and catechins.Abstract
Green and black teas are both prepared with leaves of the same plant, Camellia sinensis. The black tea is responsible for 75% of the total tea consumed worldwide, and the green tea, for 22%. In the beginning, tea was consumed as a medicine; it became popular due to its organoleptic characteristics. Its components, flavonoids and catechins, are considered antioxidant, chemoprotective, anti-inflammatory and anticarcinogenic. Several studies have been developed in different parts of the world, in order to prove these therapeutic activities and understand their mechanisms. Considering the above mentioned, this revision has the purpose of presenting the several reseach lines in progress and the results obtained so far on the chemoprotective/antioxidant effect of the green tea.
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