Why drinking green tea could prevent cancer

Jerzy Jankun (), Steven H. Selman, Rafal Swiercz and Ewa Skrzypczak-Jankun
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Jerzy Jankun: Medical College of Ohio
Steven H. Selman: Medical College of Ohio
Rafal Swiercz: *Department of Physiology and Molecular Medicine
Ewa Skrzypczak-Jankun: The University of Toledo

Nature, 1997, vol. 387, issue 6633, 561-561

Abstract: Abstract Epidemiological studies suggest that the consumption of green tea may help prevent cancers in humans; also, breast and prostate cancers in animal models are reduced by green, but not black, tea1. Here we offer a possible explanation. We have inferred (using molecular modelling) and subsequently demonstrated that one of the major ingredients of green tea inhibits urokinase, an enzyme crucial for cancer growth.

Date: 1997
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