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Pomegranate juice may be a potential addition to anti-Behçet armamentarium: a hypothesis
Afshin Borhani Haghighi1, Mansooreh Bagheri
1Department of Neurology, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. borhanihaghighi@yahoo.com
Clinical Rheumatology
|April 5, 2007
Abstract:
Behçet's disease (BD) is a systemic vasculitis. We speculate that local or systemic administration of the pomegranate juice may be useful in the treatment of BD. Immunomodulatory, antioxidants and antibacterial characteristics of pomegranate juice may rationalize this hypothesis.
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