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Efficacy and Safety of Pomegranate Medicinal Products for Cancer
Preclinical in vitro and in vivo studies demonstrate potent effects of pomegranate preparations in cancer cell lines and animal models with chemically induced cancers. We have carried out one systematic review of the effectiveness of pomegranate products in the treatment of cancer and another on the...
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4359844/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25815026 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/258598 |
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author | Vlachojannis, Christian Zimmermann, Benno F. Chrubasik-Hausmann, Sigrun |
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description | Preclinical in vitro and in vivo studies demonstrate potent effects of pomegranate preparations in cancer cell lines and animal models with chemically induced cancers. We have carried out one systematic review of the effectiveness of pomegranate products in the treatment of cancer and another on their safety. The PubMed search provided 162 references for pomegranate and cancer and 122 references for pomegranate and safety/toxicity. We identified 4 clinical studies investigating 3 pomegranate products, of which one was inappropriate because of the low polyphenol content. The evidence of clinical effectiveness was poor because the quality of the studies was poor. Although there is no concern over safety with the doses used in the clinical studies, pomegranate preparations may be harmful by inducing synthetic drug metabolism through activation of liver enzymes. We have analysed various pomegranate products for their content of anthocyanins, punicalagin, and ellagic acid in order to compare them with the benchmark doses from published data. If the amount of coactive constituents is not declared, patients risk not benefiting from the putative pomegranate effects. Moreover, pomegranate end products are affected by many determinants. Their declaration should be incorporated into the regulatory guidance and controlled before pomegranate products enter the market. |
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spelling | pubmed-43598442015-03-26 Efficacy and Safety of Pomegranate Medicinal Products for Cancer Vlachojannis, Christian Zimmermann, Benno F. Chrubasik-Hausmann, Sigrun Evid Based Complement Alternat Med Review Article Preclinical in vitro and in vivo studies demonstrate potent effects of pomegranate preparations in cancer cell lines and animal models with chemically induced cancers. We have carried out one systematic review of the effectiveness of pomegranate products in the treatment of cancer and another on their safety. The PubMed search provided 162 references for pomegranate and cancer and 122 references for pomegranate and safety/toxicity. We identified 4 clinical studies investigating 3 pomegranate products, of which one was inappropriate because of the low polyphenol content. The evidence of clinical effectiveness was poor because the quality of the studies was poor. Although there is no concern over safety with the doses used in the clinical studies, pomegranate preparations may be harmful by inducing synthetic drug metabolism through activation of liver enzymes. We have analysed various pomegranate products for their content of anthocyanins, punicalagin, and ellagic acid in order to compare them with the benchmark doses from published data. If the amount of coactive constituents is not declared, patients risk not benefiting from the putative pomegranate effects. Moreover, pomegranate end products are affected by many determinants. Their declaration should be incorporated into the regulatory guidance and controlled before pomegranate products enter the market. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-03-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4359844/ /pubmed/25815026 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/258598 Text en Copyright © 2015 Christian Vlachojannis et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Review Article Vlachojannis, Christian Zimmermann, Benno F. Chrubasik-Hausmann, Sigrun Efficacy and Safety of Pomegranate Medicinal Products for Cancer |
title | Efficacy and Safety of Pomegranate Medicinal Products for Cancer |
title_full | Efficacy and Safety of Pomegranate Medicinal Products for Cancer |
title_fullStr | Efficacy and Safety of Pomegranate Medicinal Products for Cancer |
title_full_unstemmed | Efficacy and Safety of Pomegranate Medicinal Products for Cancer |
title_short | Efficacy and Safety of Pomegranate Medicinal Products for Cancer |
title_sort | efficacy and safety of pomegranate medicinal products for cancer |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4359844/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25815026 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/258598 |
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