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drug:
Acarbose
supplement:
Green Tea Extract
Research Papers that Mention the Interaction
“ Tea extracts in combination with acarbose , produced a synergistic inhibitory effect on rat maltase activity.”
Inhibition of α-glucosidases by tea polyphenols in rat intestinal extract and Caco-2 cells grown on Transwell.“Our results indicated that the interaction between green tea extracts (green tea polyphenols or EGCG) and acarbose was complicated.”
“The combination of green tea extracts , green tea polyphenols or EGCG with acarbose had a synergistic effect on α-amylase and α-glucosidase at low concentrations and the combined effect turned out to be antagonistic at high concentrations according to the Combination Index (CI) values.”
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