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ReviewAntioxidants (Basel, Switzerland)2019

A Comprehensive Insight on the Health Benefits and Phytoconstituents of

Maram M Aboulwafa, Fadia S Youssef, Haidy A Gad, Ahmed E Altyar, Mohamed M Al-Azizi, Mohamed L Ashour

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In one paragraph

Review in Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
32citing papers in PubMed
4.2field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed, 77 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Maram M AboulwafaDepartment of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain-Shams University, Cairo-11566, Egypt. maram.aboulwafa@pharma.asu.edu.eg.
Fadia S YoussefDepartment of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain-Shams University, Cairo-11566, Egypt. fadiayoussef@pharma.asu.edu.eg.
Haidy A GadDepartment of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain-Shams University, Cairo-11566, Egypt. haidygad@pharma.asu.edu.eg.
Ahmed E AltyarDepartment of Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80260 Jeddah-21589, Saudi Arabia. prof_dean_zi@hotmail.com.
Mohamed M Al-AziziDepartment of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain-Shams University, Cairo-11566, Egypt. aealtyar@kau.edu.sa.
Mohamed L AshourDepartment of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain-Shams University, Cairo-11566, Egypt. ashour@pharma.asu.edu.eg.
Ain Shams University · EGKing Abdulaziz University · SA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tea, Camellia sinensis, which belongs to the family Theaceae, is a shrub or evergreen tree up to 16 m in height. Green tea is very popular because of its marked health benefits comprising its anticancer, anti-oxidant, and antimicrobial activities, as well as its effectiveness in reducing body weight. Additionally, it was recognized by Chinese people as an effective traditional drink required for the prophylaxis against many health ailments. This is due to the complex chemical composition of green tea, which comprises different classes of chemical compounds, such as polyphenols, alkaloids, proteins, minerals, vitamins, amino acids, and others. The beneficial health effects of green tea ultimately led to its great consumption and increase its liability to be adulterated by either low-quality or non-green tea products with concomitant decrease in activity. Thus, in this review, green tea was selected to highlight its health benefits and phytoconstituents, as well as recent approaches for its quality-control monitoring that guarantee its incorporation in many pharmaceutical industries. More research is needed to find out other more biological activities, active constituents, and other simple and cheap techniques for its quality assurance that ascertain the prevention of its adulteration.

Indexed as

biological activityCamellia sinensisphytochemistryquality control

Identifiers

PMID31590466
PMCPMC6826564
OpenAlexW2978434595

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Registered trials

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