Oil from pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo L.) seeds: Evaluation of its functional properties on wound healing in rats

Lipids in Health and Disease

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Bardaa, Sana ^a   Ben Halima, Nihed ^b   Aloui, Fatma ^c   Ben Mansour, Riadh ^d   Jabeur, Hazem ^e   Bouaziz, Mohamed ^e   Sahnoun, Zouheir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^d Biotechnology Center   (Tunisia)

^e Université de Sfax   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Fatty acids; Phytosterols; Pumpkin seed oil; Tocopherols; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

BRASSICASTEROL; CAMPESTANOL; CAMPESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL; CICAFLORA; CLEROSTEROL; DELTA 5 AVENASTEROL; DELTA 5,23 STIGMASTADIENOL; DELTA 5,24 STIGMASTADIENOL; DELTA 7 AVENASTEROL; DELTA 7 CAMPESTEROL; DELTA 7 STIGMASTENOL; DERMATOLOGICAL AGENT; FATTY ACID; LINOLEIC ACID; PHYTOSTEROL; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; PUMPKIN SEED OIL; SITOSTANOL; SITOSTEROL; STIGMASTEROL; TOCOPHEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE OIL; WOUND HEALING PROMOTING AGENT; ANTIOXIDANT; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING TIME; COLLAGEN FIBER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUCURBITA PEPO; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG DETERMINATION; EPITHELIZATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IN VIVO STUDY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PLANT SEED; RAT; SKIN APPENDAGE; WOUND; WOUND HEALING; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; HELA CELL LINE; HUMAN; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; PRECLINICAL STUDY; PROCEDURES; SQUASH; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CUCURBITA; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; FATTY ACIDS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PHYTOSTEROLS; PLANT OILS; RATS, WISTAR; SEEDS; TOCOPHEROLS; TRIGLYCERIDES; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84963799684     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476511X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12944-016-0237-0     Document Type: Article

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