BACKGROUND Liver fibrosis is a feature in the majority of chronic liver diseases and oxidative stress is considered to be its main pathogenic mechanism. Antioxidants including vitamin E, are effective in preventing liver fibrogenesis. Several plant-drived antioxidants, such as silymarin, baicalin, beicalein, quercetin, apigenin, were shown to interfere with liver fibrogenesis. The antioxidans a...

In vitro Antimicrobial Comparison of Taif and Egyptian Pomegranate Peels Seeds ExtractsAhmed Gaber , Mohamed M. Hassan El-Dessoky S. Dessoky Attia O.

Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) have a wide range of biological activity. Among them conjugated fatty acids are of great interest. Conjugated linoleic acids (CLA), which exert a multidirectional health-benefiting influence, and conjugated linolenic acids (CLnA, super CLA) are examples of this group of fatty acids. CLnA are a group of positional and geometric isomers of octadecatrienoic acid ...

Folk medicine suggests that pomegranate (peels, seeds and leaves) has anti-inflammatory properties; however, the precise mechanisms by which this plant affects the inflammatory process remain unclear. Herein, we analyzed the anti-inflammatory properties of a hydroalcoholic extract prepared from pomegranate leaves using a rat model of lipopolysaccharide-induced acute peritonitis. Male Wistar rat...

this study determined optimum conditions for drying pomegranate arils in a solar dryer. a cabinet solar dryer was used in active and mixed modes. the response surface method was employed with nine treatments (runs) and a control run (3 m/s air velocity and 2 cm in thickness) and five replications. the bryte cultivar was tested and samples were dried to approximately 10% moisture. drying time, v...

background: acute pancreatitis (ap) refers to afflicted inflammation of pancreas with unfavorable adverse effects and developed multiple organ failures. unfortunately, there is not a certain therapeutic method for this disease. oxidative stress has a serious role in the pathogenesis of ap. thus, decreasing of oxidative stress may prevent induction and progression of ap. punica granatum l. has b...

Here is a title as full of questions as a pomegranate is full of seeds. How does one treat the irremediable ? If the irremediable is treated, is it irremediable ? Is "to treat" less than "to remedy"? And why the contiguity of "irremediable" and "elderly"? Are all elderly irremediable ? Are all irremediable elderly ? These questions concem attitudes. They are important because attitudes rather t...

Pomegranate as a functional food and nutraceutical source has gained widespread popularity. Pomegranate and its juice and extracts are currently being widely offered, with or without scientific support, to consumers as a new superfood with numerous health promoting effects. Therefore, due to the explosion of interest in pomegranate as a therapeutic source, the aim of the present work was to inv...

in order to study seed hardening process in pomegranate, some of the relevant biochemical parameters were evaluated in fleshy part of arils or seeds in various soft and hard seeded pomegranate genotypes from the initial fruit set upto ripening stages. lignin was determined from the seeds and enzyme assays were performed on the flesh of arils. analysis of variance revealed significant difference...