Green Tea and its polyphenols, targeting signalling pathways for chemoprevention
Keywords:
Green tea; Polyphenols; Signalling pathways; Chemoprevention; Cancer
Abstract
Tea polyphenols can protect against the multi-stages of cancer initiation, promotion, and progression. Research findings and epidemiologic studies suggest that the polyphenolic compounds, (-)-epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), (-)-epicatechin-3-gallate (ECG); (-)-epigallocatechin (EGC) and (-)-epicatechin (EC) found primarily in Green Tea have chemo-preventive potential. Cell signalling cascades and their interacting factors have become important targets of chemoprevention and phenolic phytochemicals and plant extracts seem to be promising in this endeavour.
Published
2013-10-30
Section
Research Article
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