Pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) fruits are widely consumed as juice (PJ). The potent antioxidant and anti-atherosclerotic activities of PJ are attributed to its polyphenols including punicalagin, the major fruit ellagitannin, and ellagic acid (EA). Punicalagin is the major antioxidant polyphenol ingredient in PJ. Punicalagin, EA, a standardized total pomegranate tannin (TPT) extract and PJ wer...

Daniel Cavalcanti, L. M. Moreira, Franklin Matinaga, Marcelo O. Terra Cunha, Marcelo França Santos 1 Departamento de F́ısica CP 702 Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais 30123-970 Belo Horizonte MG Brazil 2 Departamento de Matemática CP 702 Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais 30123-970 Belo Horizonte MG Brazil 3 The School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK

We study contact representations for planar graphs, with vertices represented by simple polygons and adjacencies represented by point-contacts or side-contacts between the corresponding polygons. Specifically, we consider proportional contact representations, where pre-specified vertex weights must be represented by the areas of the corresponding polygons. Natural optimization goals for such re...

Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a serious metabolic disorder. Pomegranate has various biological effects. The present study evaluated pomegranate juice (PJ) therapeutic effects on the liver of Streptozotocin (STZ) induced DM mice model. Fifty male were distributed into 5 equal groups (10 each). Groups negative control, PJ group received orally (180 mg/kg), diabetic STZ (60 (STZ+PJ) group, metformin (...

BACKGROUND Diabetes causes the increased concentration of circulatory cytokines as a result of inflammation. Considering that pomegranate juice (PJ) is known to have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, the purpose of this study was to determine the effects of PJ consumption on markers of inflammation in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D). MATERIALS AND METHODS In a randomized, doub...

The quality of magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) images is frequently degraded by high signal from the gastrointestinal tract. The aim of this study is to evaluate pineapple juice (PJ) as an oral negative contrast agent in MRCP. Preliminary in vitro evaluation demonstrated that PJ shortened T(2) relaxation time and hence decreased T(2) signal intensity on a standard MRCP sequen...

Colon polyps represent precursor lesions of colon cancers and their malignant potential varies according to histological subtype. A rare subtype of colon polyps is the Peutz-Jeghers (PJ) polyp. PJ polyps mostly occur in the context of Peutz-Jeghers syndrome, which is characterized by the development of multiple polyps in the intestinal tract and hyperpigmentation of oral mucosa and lips. Peutz-...

The basic scheduling problem we are dealing with in this paper is the following one. A set of jobs has to be scheduled on a set of parallel uniform machines. Each machine can handle at most one job at a time. All jobs have the same execution requirement. Each machine has a known speed. The processing of any job may be interrupted arbitrarily often and resumed later on any machine. The goal is t...

Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 702-701, Korea *E-mail: [email protected] (D.H. Na); [email protected] (K.-S. Song) Natural Products Department, Korea Promotion Institute for Traditional Medicine Industry, Gyeongbuk 712-260, Korea College of Pharmacy, Catholic University of Daegu, Gyeongbuk 712-702, Korea Received December 26,...