Pomegranate phytochemicals

Pomegranates: Ancient Roots to Modern Medicine

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 3-29

  Seeram, Navindra P ^a   Zhang, Yanjun ^a   Reed, Jess D ^b   Krueger, Christian G ^a   Vaya, Jakob ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c TEL HAI COLLEGE   (Israel)

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