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| Title |
Oil from pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo L.) seeds: evaluation of its functional properties on wound healing in rats
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| Published in |
Lipids in Health and Disease, April 2016
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12944-016-0237-0 |
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| Authors |
Sana Bardaa, Nihed Ben Halima, Fatma Aloui, Riadh Ben Mansour, Hazem Jabeur, Mohamed Bouaziz, Zouheir Sahnoun |
| Abstract |
Increasing natural drug demand for pharmaceutical uses has encouraged scientifics all over the world to explore medicinal plants recognized as efficient remedies. In this context, extracted oil from pumpkin seeds (Cucurbita pepo L.) is an interesting target, as it is composed with prominent pharmacological properties to possible wound healing treatments. The composition and content of certain bioactive constituents of the cold pressed oil obtained from pumpkin seeds (Cucurbita pepo L.) were analyzed and studied for their wound healing properties. Uniform wounds were induced on the dorsum of 18 rats, randomly divided into three groups. The wounds were photographed, and topically treated with saline solution (control group), 0.13 mg/mm(2) of a reference drug ("Cicaflora cream®"), and 0.52 μl/mm(2) of pumpkin's oil each 2 days until the first group is completely healing and so far biopsies were histologically assessed. The composition and content of tocopherols, fatty acids, and phytosterols were determined. The results showed an excellent quality of pumpkin oil with high content of polyunsaturated fatty acids (Linoleic acid: 50.88 ± 0.106 g/100 g of total fatty acids), tocopherols (280 ppm) and sterols (2086.5 ± 19.092 ppm). High content of these bioactive components were in agreement with an efficient wound healing by the mean of an in vivo study. In fact, morphometric assessment and histological findings revealed healed biopsies from pumpkin oil treated group of rats, unlike untreated group, and a full re-epithelialization with reappearance of skin appendages and well organized collagen fibers without inflammatory cells. This study showed the significance of oil from pumpkin seeds (Cucurbita pepo L.) as a promising drug to healing wounds in animal assays. As a whole, pumpkin's oil would be recommended in the nutritional and medicinal purposes. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| New Zealand | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 16 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 17 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 273 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 273 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Master | 33 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 33 | 12% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 25 | 9% |
| Researcher | 21 | 8% |
| Other | 14 | 5% |
| Other | 40 | 15% |
| Unknown | 107 | 39% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 41 | 15% |
| Chemistry | 23 | 8% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 20 | 7% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 18 | 7% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 17 | 6% |
| Other | 37 | 14% |
| Unknown | 117 | 43% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 53. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 January 2023.
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