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Effects of Green Tea Catechins (GTC) on the Treatment of Hangover and Prevention of Liver Disease
Korean J Clin Lab Sci 2014,46:131-135  
Published on December 31, 2014
Copyright © 2014 Korean Society for Clinical Laboratory Science.

Mi-Yea Lee1, Won Shik Kim2 and Yong Lim3

1Department of Nursing, Chungbuk Health&Science University, Cheongwon 363-794, Korea
2Department of Clinical Laboratory Science, Daejeon Health Sciences College, Daejeon 300-711, Korea
3Department of Clinical Laboratory Science, Dong-Eui University, Busan 614-714, Korea
Correspondence to: Yong Lim
Department of Clinical Laboratory Science, Dong-eui University, 176 Eomgwang-ro, Busanjin-gu, Busan 614-714, Korea
Tel: 82-51-890-2684
E-mail: yonglim@deu.ac.kr
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Over-consumption of alcohol leads to many side-effects such as malnutrition, liver disease, and neuronal disorders and many investigators have tried to identify methods for preventing the side-effects of drinking. This study was carried out to investigate the effect of the beverage contained green tea catechins (GTC) on the alcohol administered rats. We observed that blood alcohol concentration level decreased significantly in plasma. GTC (200 mg/kg) also reduced the aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) level of the intoxicated rats. These results suggest that GTC may be useful for the prevention and therapy of hepatotoxic pathogenesis.
Keywords : Alcohol, GTC, AST, ALT
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