ImmuneTea {Lock5Data}

Immune Tea

Description

Interferon gamma production and tea drinking

Format

A dataset with 21 observations on the following 2 variables.

InterferonGamma	Measure of interferon gamma production
Drink	Type of drink: Coffee or Tea

Details

Eleven healthy non-tea-drinking individuals were asked to drink five or six cups of tea a day, while ten healthy non-tea and non-coffee-drinkers were asked to drink the same amount of coffee, which has caffeine but not the L-theanine that is in tea. The groups were randomly assigned. After two weeks, blood samples were exposed to an antigen and production of interferon gamma was measured.

Source

Adapted from Kamath, et.al., "Antigens in tea-Beverage prime human V 2V2 T cells in vitro and in vivo for memory and non-memory antibacterial cytokine responses", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 13, 2003.