- 著者
- Baolu Zhao
- 出版者
- SOCIETY FOR FREE RADICAL RESEARCH JAPAN
- 雑誌
- Journal of Clinical Biochemistry and Nutrition (ISSN:09120009)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.38, no.2, pp.59-68, 2006 (Released:2006-02-23)
- 参考文献数
- 80
- 被引用文献数
- 8 14
There are thousands year of history for drinking tea in China and world. The benefits of drinking tea to human health are well known and improved by epidemiological result and experiments. The most effective components in tea are polyphenols which are about 30% weight of dry tea. The antitumor and antimutagenic effects of the tea polyphenols, the prevent effect of the tea polyphenols on Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease, the protective effects of the tea polyphenols on neuron against lead toxicity and their antioxidant mechanisms are reviewed and discussed in this paper.