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Science Forum Index » Medicine - Cancer Forum » Tea may help heal skin damaged by radiation
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| Roman Bystrianyk |
 Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 8:48 am |
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"Tea may help heal skin damaged by radiation", Economic Times of India,
December 4, 2006,
Link: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/702576.cms
Tea extracts can help heal skin damage caused by radiation treatment in
cancer patients, say researchers.
Frank Pajonk from the University of California in Los Angeles and his
colleagues from the University of Freiburg, Germany, studied the
effects of green and black tea extracts on patients who had been
treated with radiotherapy, which can damage the skin.
The researchers then analysed the effect of the same tea extracts on
human and mice white blood cells in culture, which showed that tea acts
at the cellular level by inhibiting inflammatory pathways to reduce
inflammation, reported science portal EurekAlert.
This might partly be due to the anti-inflammatory properties of tea,
the researchers said in the latest issue of the journal BMC Medicine.
They also found that tea extracts reduce the duration of skin toxicity
following radiotherapy of five to 10 days.
Both black and green teas inhibit a major inflammatory pathway in a
mouse's white blood cells. However, green tea extracts are more
effective than black tea extracts in some patients, they added. |
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