By Kyle J. Norton
Green tea may have a therapeutic and positive effect in reduced onset, progression, and treatment of inflammatory rheumatic disorders induced fibromyalgia, some scientists suggested.
Green tea is a precious drink that processed a number of health benefits known to almost everyone in Asia and the Western world.
Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic condition characterized by muscle and soft tissue pain, affecting over 10 million (3.6% of the population) people in the US alone.
Inflammatory rheumatic disorder is a condition of autoimmune diseases caused by inflammatory connective tissues, joints, and vessels of the body, including rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, and vasculitis.
According to Cairo University, as many as 15-30% of patients with classic inflammatory rheumatic disorders also have co-morbid fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) compared to the rate of only 2% of the prevalence of FMS in the general population (2%).
These results suggested that rheumatological syndromes have a strong implication in the development of fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) compared to other initiators such as stress.
Therefore, patients with chronic rheumatic diseases are capable of triggering the condition of fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS).
Due to the highly correlated rheumatologic disease and FMS component, researchers postulated "Considerations of the FMS component in the management of rheumatologic diseases increase the likelihood of the success of the treatment" and "(prevented) FMS in misdiagnosed as an autoimmune disorder"
In the study of the effect of green tea's active ingredient, epigallocatechin 3-gallate (EGCG) on the risk of inflammatory rheumatic disorders in collagen-induced arthritis (CIA) in mice, researchers found that application of green tea demonstrates a substantially marked inhibition of the inflammatory mediator's cyclooxygenase (COX) -2 in converting arachidonic acid in stimulated production of proinflammatory cytokine prostaglandin H2, in catalyzation of symptoms of inflammation in the muscles.
Furthermore, green tea EGCG oral ingestion also inhibited levels of interferon-gamma in precipitated inflammation by modulating T-cells and natural killer cells activated by antigens, mitogens, or alloantigens to the site of infection.
Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNFα) involved in systemic inflammation, one of the cytokines that make up the acute phase reaction in mice was also inhibited by injection of green tea EGCG.
These results suggested that green tea ameliorated symptoms and expression of inflammatory rheumatic disorders, through attenuating production of pro-inflammatory factors without reducing the healing progression of injured tissue.
The above differentiation was supported by the study of green tea extract GTE in modestly ameliorated rat adjuvant-induced arthritis.
According to researchers, a daily per-oral administration of GTE (200 mg/kg) reduced expression of RA through reduced levels of MCP-1/CCL2 in expression (which can also be treated by biological agents, such as antibodies and inhibitory peptides) of a variety of diseases characterized by mononuclear cell infiltration involved substantial biological and genetic evidence, including RA.
and GROα/CXCL1 in the recruitment of inflammatory cells in the wound healing process after injury in angiogenesis and information of granulation tissue of wounds.
Additionally, the application of green tea besides attenuating the expression of proinflammatory factors also exhibited the production of chemokine receptors CCR-1, CCR-2, and CCR-5 in reduced direct communication between the innate and adaptive immune responses in initiating the development of inflammatory responses. through inactivation of leukocytes in inflamed tissues in contribution to the pathogenesis of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases.
And CXCR1 receptor binding to IL-8 in reduced the expression of some inflammatory cytokines in initiated inflammation such as epidermal growth factor (EGF) and tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α).
Some researchers suggested that the application of green tea extract may also reduce the symptoms of arthritis through the expression of IL-6 levels, as increased levels of Il-6 were associated with the presence and progression of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) found in conventional clinical and laboratory indices and MMP-2 activity in activated immune-inflammatory response through inducing the production of pro-inflammatory factors.
Taken together, green tea and its bioactive compound such as EGCG may have a profound and therapeutic effect in reducing the onset, progression, and treatment of fibromyalgia induced by inflammatory rheumatic disorders through modulating the production of pro and anti-inflammatory proteins. However, the intake of green tea supplements should be taken with extreme care due to recent reports of acute liver toxicity.
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Kyle J. Norton (Scholar, Master of Nutrition, All right reserved)
Health article writer and researcher; Over 10.000 articles and research papers have been written and published online, including worldwide health, ezine articles, article base, health blogs, self-growth, best before it's news, the Karate GB Daily, etc.,.
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Some articles have been used as references in medical research, such as the international journal Pharma and Bioscience, ISSN 0975-6299.
Sources
(1) Fibromyalgia and Rheumatic Diseases by Gheita TA*, El-Rabbat SM and Mahmoud NK(Open Access)
(2) Green tea polyphenol epigallocatechin 3-gallate in arthritis: progress and promise by Salahuddin Ahmed(PMC)
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