In an effort to document the antibacterial properties of plants commonly used by the people of Puerto Rico, we studied the effects of 172 plant species, utilizing the disc diffusion method, against Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. The methanolic extracts of 14 species showed antibacterial activities during this preliminary screen. These positive plant extracts were tested successivel...

Discovery of novel drug against tuberculosis is inevitable since resistant bacterial strains are evolved existing drugs and rapidly active single in short period necessary for effective treatment. When compared to synthetic drugs, natural particularly phytochemicals induce less side effects long term stability. In Indian traditional medicine, several plant species have been used treating each c...

In this work, we characterized conjugated linolenic acids (e.g., punicic acid) as the major components of the hydrophilic fraction (80% aqueous methanol extract) from pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) seed oil (PSO) and evaluated their anti-inflammatory potential on some human colon (HT29 and HCT116), liver (HepG2 and Huh7), breast (MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231) and prostate (DU145) cancer lines. Our re...

Punica granatum (Pg), commonly known as pomegranate (Pg), is a member of the monogeneric family, Punicaceae, and is mainly found in Iran which is considered to be its primary centre of origin. Pg and its chemical components possess various pharmacological and toxicological properties including antioxidant, anti-inflammatory (by inhibiting pro-inflammatory cytokines), anti-cancer and anti-angiog...

background: to evaluate the radioprotective potential of punica granatum fruit rind extract (pgre) in mouse testes. materials and methods: adult male mice were divided into four groups. group i was kept without any treatment. group ii was irradiated with 8gy co60 gamma irradiation and group iii was given pgre one hour before irradiation. group iv was fed with pgre at the rate of 10 mg/kg body w...

pomegranate tree possesses a vast ethnomedical history and represents a phytochemical reservoir of heuristic medicinal value. in the present study, total phenolics, antioxidant, and antibacterial activities of pomegranate peel were determined by folin–ciocalteu, 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (dpph) and disk-diffusion methods, respectively, and compared among the accessions. methanolic extract g...