The aim of the present research was examination potential activity various organic solvent extracts Punica granatum on important microbiota harbouring in oral cavity. dried peels and seeds P. were extracted using chloroform, methanol nbutanol their studied. inhibitory effect crude observed microbial plates which incubated with different bacterial species terms zone inhibition as mm diameter. da...

Camillo Ricordi, Julia S. Goldstein, A.N. Balamurugan, Gregory L. Szot, Tatsuya Kin, Chengyang Liu, Christine W. Czarniecki, Barbara Barbaro, Nancy D. Bridges, Jose Cano, William R. Clarke, Thomas L. Eggerman, Lawrence G. Hunsicker, Dixon B. Kaufman, Aisha Khan, David-Erick Lafontant, Elina Linetsky, Xunrong Luo, James F. Markmann, Ali Naji, Olle Korsgren, Jose Oberholzer, Nicole A. Turgeon, Da...

Objective: The present study was undertaken to investigate the thrombolytic activity of Punica granatum fruit and peel extract. Methods: Phytoconstituents and free radical scavenging activity of P. granatum extract were performed. Ethanolic and aqueous extract of fruit and peel of the plant was used for in vitro clot lysis activity using streptokinase (SK) as standard. In a series of pre-weighe...

The last 7 years have seen over seven times as many publications indexed by Medline dealing with pomegranate and Punica granatum than in all the years preceding them. Because of this, and the virtual explosion of interest in pomegranate as a medicinal and nutritional product that has followed, this review is accordingly launched. The pomegranate tree, Punica granatum, especially its fruit, poss...

Fourteen extracts from Brazilian traditional medicinal plants used to treat infectious diseases were used to look for potential antimicrobial activity against multiresistant bacteria of medical importance. Staphylococcus aureus strains were susceptible to extracts of Punica granatum and Tabebuia avellanedae. The minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) of the total extracts and of additional fr...