| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a food or drink or a medicine which uses a tea compound and has a COX-2 inhibiting and/or PGE2 biosynthesis-inhibiting action. <P>SOLUTION: Tea compounds of 40 kinds separated from green tea, oolong tea and black tea have been offered, and researches targeting an enzyme COX-2 causing chronic inflammation and its product, PGE2, have zealously been performed. Consequently, it have been found that 18 kinds of tea compounds inhibit the expression of the COX-2 and/or the production of the PGE2. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT |
