Green Tea Extract and Theophylline: what the published research says
PubMed indexes 7 records that name Green Tea Extract and Theophylline together, either in the title or in an interaction, co-administration, or pharmacokinetic context. Each one is listed below with its study design and, where the abstract states one, the authors’ own conclusion, quoted and linked. This page reports that literature. It does not tell you whether to combine them.
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This page lists published research relevant to Green Tea Extract and Theophylline. It deliberately does not state whether the combination is safe, whether it interacts, in which direction, at what dose, or how far apart to take them.
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The research
7 studies naming Green Tea Extract and Theophylline.
Strongest relevance first: papers naming both substances in the title, then human trials and systematic reviews.
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry · 2020 · PMID 32786830
“Furthermore, mono- and di-ACR-TP had similar time-dependent ACR-scavenging activity to TP. Finally, we demonstrated that green tea, coffee, and cocoa inhibited ACR by trapping ACR to form mono- and di-ACR-TP adducts during the incubation of green tea, coffee, and cocoa with ACR.”
Names both Green Tea Extract and Theophylline in its title.
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry · 2020 · PMID 33253558
Human subjects
“Furthermore, we also detected those ACR adducts of TP and TP/CAF's metabolites in human urine after four cups of green tea (2 g tea leaf/cup) or two cups of coffee (4 g coffee/cup) were consumed per day. Those results indicated that dietary TP or CAF has the potential capacity to scavenge ACR in vivo.”
Names both Green Tea Extract and Theophylline in its title.
“The practical recoveries of theobromine and theophylline in green tea were 92.27% and 87.51%, respectively, with a corresponding actual extraction amount of 4.87 mg•g-1 and 5.07 mg•g-1. Overall, the proposed approach with the high affinity of Fe3O4/MIPs might offer a novel method for the purification of complex isomer samples.”
Names both Green Tea Extract and Theophylline in its title.
Journal of chromatography. A · 2006 · PMID 17046776
“The morphological characteristics of monolithic MIP were investigated by scanning electron microscope, which showed that both mesopores and macropores were formed in the monolith. The present monolithic MIP column was successfully applied for the quantitative determination of caffeine and theophylline in different kinds of green tea.”
Names both Green Tea Extract and Theophylline in its title.
Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2004 · PMID 15196729
Animal study
“These findings indicate that green tea and theophylline as well as other chemopreventive agents that modulate signal transduction may have opposite effects on cancers of different histolopathology and cell lineage. At the current state of knowledge such chemopreventive treatments should only be used as adjuvant to cancer therapy of cancers that have been fully characterized at the pathology and molecular level.”
Names both Green Tea Extract and Theophylline in its title.
Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2005 · PMID 16193318
Comparative StudyHuman subjects
Names Green Tea Extract and Theophylline together in an interaction, co-administration, or pharmacokinetic context.
Limitations
What this evidence cannot tell you.
Search-based evidence indexes have real limits, and it is worth being explicit about them:
Selection. These records were found by searching PubMed titles and abstracts for both substance names alongside interaction and pharmacokinetic terms. Relevant work that phrases things differently, or is not indexed in PubMed, will be missing.
No effect size. The quoted conclusions are the authors’ words about their own study. We have not extracted effect direction or magnitude, and a single study’s conclusion is not a consensus.
Population mismatch. Findings in healthy volunteers, animals, or a specific patient group may not transfer to you, your dose, or your formulation.
Absence is not safety. Few published studies means the combination is under-studied, which is not the same as established as safe.
Nearby evidence
Other pairs with published research.
Pages covering Green Tea Extract or Theophylline alongside a different substance.
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