Black Tea May Be a Prospective Adjunct for Calcium Supplementation to Prevent Early Menopausal Bone Loss in a Rat Model of Osteoporosis

The present study was undertaken to find out the ability of black tea extract (BTE) as a suitable alternative of adjunct for calcium supplementation in treating an ovariectomized rat model of early osteoporosis. Female Wistar rats weighing 140–150 g were divided into four groups consisting of six an...

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Main Authors: Asankur Sekhar Das, Maitrayee Banerjee, Dolan Das, Sandip Mukherjee, Chandan Mitra
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2013-01-01
Series:Journal of Osteoporosis
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/760586