What is the exact diffrence between the effects of caffeine and theopylline ???
caffeine vs. theopylline
Sep 03, 2003
2 Replies
There is no difference. A short history lesson: caffeine was discovered 1820 in coffee. In the year 1838 it pointed out that theopylline (discovered 1827 in tea) is identically to caffeine.
Dominic
Nope. They're both methylated xanthines, but the chemical structure is slightly different.
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Lara
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