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This study is telling about the reason why EGCG, a component of green tea, could inhibit the mobility of immune cells in the body, which is believed to be linked with the metastasis of tumor or related to the progress of Alzhiemer's disease and Parkinson's disease.

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Our study support that drinking green tea or taking EGCG may help treating turmor and neurodegenerative diseases.

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This page is a summary of: Attenuated migration by green tea extract (−)-epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG): involvement of 67 kDa laminin receptor internalization in macrophagic cells, Food & Function, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry,
DOI: 10.1039/c4fo00143e.
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