Extraction of phytochemicals from the pomegranate (Punica granatum L., Punicaceae) by reverse iontophoresis.

ABSTRACT: Plant metabolic profiling can provide a wealth of information regarding the biochemical status of the organism, but sample acquisition typically requires an invasive and/or destructive extraction process. Reverse iontophoresis (RI) imposes a small electric field across a biological membrane to substantially enhance the transport of charged and polar compounds and has been employed, in particular, to extract biomarkers of interest across human skin. The objective of this work was to examine the capability of RI to sample phytochemicals in a minimally invasive fashion in fructo (i.e., from the intact fruit). RI was principally used to extract a model, bioactive compound - specifically, ellagic acid - from the fruit peel of Punica granatum L. The RI sampling protocol was

SUBMITTER: Moore K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10087384 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature