{"id":260,"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-is-effective-against-liver-fibrosis\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T10:54:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:54:58","slug":"green-tea-extract-is-effective-against-liver-fibrosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/green-tea-extract-is-effective-against-liver-fibrosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Green tea extract is effective against liver fibrosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<p>This study examined the effects of the green tea extract epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) on liver fibrosis (development of scar tissue in the liver). The experiments were performed using cells and rats. The results demonstrated that the administration of EGCG can be useful in the treatment and prevention of liver fibrosis. Further details can be found in the study.<\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<p>Mao-Chuan Zhen,\u00a0Qian Wang,\u00a0Xiao-Hui Huang,\u00a0Liang-Qi Cao,\u00a0Xi-Ling Chen,\u00a0Kai Sun,\u00a0Yun-Jian Liu,\u00a0Wen Li,\u00a0Long-Juan Zhang<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #5aadcb;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/17481882\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link to article &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary This study examined the effects of the green tea extract epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) on liver fibrosis (development of scar tissue in the liver). The experiments were performed using cells and rats. The results demonstrated that the administration of EGCG can be useful in the treatment and prevention of liver fibrosis. Further details can be&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":[933,934,932,937,936,935,638,938,931],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260"}],"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=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6014,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/6014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}