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Pomegranate Juice Compound May Inhibit Prostate Cancer

Filed in archive Food and Agriculture on September 25, 2007

A new study published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry suggests that an antioxidant compound in pomegranate juice may have chemopreventive properties against prostate cancer.

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In the new study, they researchers discovered evidence in laboratory experiments that pomegranate works in a "seek and destroy" fashion. On consumption, ellagitannins (ET), antioxidants abundant in pomegranate juice, break down to metabolites known as urolithins. The researchers showed that the urolithins concentrate at high levels in prostate tissue after being given orally and by injection to mice with prostate cancer. They also showed that urolithins inhibited the growth of human prostate cancer cells in cell culture.


Source: Science Daily


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