Colon cancer is one of the major causes of cancer-related death in the Western world. Although cytotoxic chemotherapeutic agents are available to treat the disease, these agents become ineffective as the disease advances to an invasive state. An alternative but viable approach to reduce the incidence of this deadly disease is then, to increase the dietary intake of relatively non-toxic fruits a...

The pomegranate, Punica granatum L., is an ancient, mystical, unique fruit borne on a small, long-living tree cultivated throughout the Mediterranean region, as far north as the Himalayas, in Southeast Asia, and in California and Arizona in the United States. In addition to its ancient historical uses, pomegranate is used in several systems of medicine for a variety of ailments. The synergistic...

This study evaluated the production of five new pomegranate varieties (MAP 14 , AKP15 , DMWP 2, NMRP 7 and JBP 1), being all indigenous to Southeastern India where the species shows high variability. A morphological and organoleptic characterisation of the edible portion of the seeds were investigated. Some chemical characteristics of the juice, including total soluble solids, pH, acidity and m...

Four Chinese pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) cultivars were analyzed for their individual flavonols and flavones (in fruit peel extracts) using High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC), with changes in flavonols and flavones as occurring during fruit development. The results revealed the presence of kaempferol, quercetin, myricetin, luteolin, and apigenin in all the four cultivars. In add...

Methanolic and aqueous extract of Pomegranate rind, seed and pith was evaluated for its antimicrobial activity against selected oral microorganisms like Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epidermis, Klebsiella pneumonia, Pseudomonas aeuriginosa and Candida albicans. The oral pathogens were cultured in Mueller-hinton media and then paper disks containing the extracts at concentration of 4μg/m...

Acne is a common skin condition with sebum overproduction, hyperkeratosis, Propionibacterium acnes (P. acnes) and Staphylococcus aureus, and inflammation. Punica granatum (pomegranate) is well-known for its anti-inflammatory effects; however, few studies have discussed the anti-acne effects of pomegranate. In this study, we found that pomegranate extract (PG-E) significantly reduced P. acnes-in...

M. Horoi,1 B. A. Brown,2,3 T. Otsuka,4,5 M. Honma,6 and T. Mizusaki7 1Department of Physics, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan 48859, USA 2National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA 3Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA 4Department of Physics and Center for Nuclear Study, Unive...

The present study evaluated the effects of a novel plant extract (PE) product (GrazixTM) on the performance and gut health of weaned piglets challenged with Escherichia coli. The PE was a standardised mixture of green tea leaves (Camellia sinensis) and pomegranate fruit (Punica granatum) obtained by using the LiveXtract™ process. A total of 144 piglets were weaned at 24 days and allocated to 8 ...

Unsupervised change detection using fuzzy cmeans and MRF from remotely sensed images Ming Hao, Hua Zhang, Wenzhong Shi & Kazhong Deng To cite this article: Ming Hao, Hua Zhang, Wenzhong Shi & Kazhong Deng (2013) Unsupervised change detection using fuzzy c-means and MRF from remotely sensed images, Remote Sensing Letters, 4:12, 1185-1194, DOI: 10.1080/2150704X.2013.858841 To link to this article...

Copyright: © 2014 Liu B, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Aromatic lichen resources in Guizhou Province, China Bo Liu, Yujing Liu, Jianqin Li, Ronghui Gu, Wujisiguleng, Ping Li and Feifei...