Nanoencapsulation of pomegranate bioactive compounds for breast cancer chemoprevention
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Nanoencapsulation of pomegranate bioactive compounds for breast cancer chemoprevention
Pomegranate polyphenols are potent antioxidants and chemopreventive agents but have low bioavailability and a short half-life. For example, punicalagin (PU), the major polyphenol in pomegranates, is not absorbed in its intact form but is hydrolyzed to ellagic acid (EA) moieties and rapidly metabolized into short-lived metabolites of EA. We hypothesized that encapsulation of pomegranate polyphen...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Nanomedicine
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1178-2013
DOI: 10.2147/ijn.s65145