{"id":258,"date":"2022-09-13T10:54:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/index.php\/2021\/06\/22\/green-tea-extract-inhibits-liver-fibrosis\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T10:54:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:54:57","slug":"green-tea-extract-inhibits-liver-fibrosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/green-tea-extract-inhibits-liver-fibrosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Green tea extract inhibits liver fibrosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<p>This study evaluated the effects of epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG, a compound found in green tea) on liver fibrosis, which is the development of scar tissue in the liver in response to injury or disease. The experiments were performed with rats. The results showed that EGCG can be useful in the prevention and treatment of liver fibrosis. More details can be found in the study.<\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<p>Yoichi Yasuda,\u00a0Masahito Shimizu,\u00a0Hiroyasu Sakai,\u00a0Junpei Iwasa,\u00a0Masaya Kubota,\u00a0Seiji Adachi,\u00a0Yosuke Osawa,\u00a0Hisashi Tsurumi,\u00a0Yukihiko Hara,\u00a0Hisataka Moriwaki<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #5aadcb;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/19646978\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link to article &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary This study evaluated the effects of epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG, a compound found in green tea) on liver fibrosis, which is the development of scar tissue in the liver in response to injury or disease. The experiments were performed with rats. The results showed that EGCG can be useful in the prevention and treatment of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[923,926,921,922,924,920,919,925,918],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6012,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/6012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}