Tea Extracts Reduce Skin Damages of Radiotherapy Among Cancer Patients
Filed in archive Drugs, Vaccines and Therapeutics , Food and Agriculture by ruth on December 11, 2006
Pajonk et al. find that tea extracts reduce the duration of skin toxicity following radiotherapy by 5 to 10 days. green teaThe authors speculate that tea's high polyphenol content may account for this protective effect, but other pathways may likewise be involved.extracts are more effective than black tea extracts in some patients. Pajonk et al. also show that tea extracts reduce the release of pro-inflammatory cytokines, such as IL-1beta, IL-6, IL-8, TNFalpha and PGE2, in human white blood cells in culture, with green tea having higher anti-inflammatory properties than black tea. Both black tea and green tea inhibit one major inflammatory pathway in mouse white blood cells.
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