Anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties of unripe papaya extract in an excision wound model

CONTEXT: Carica papaya L. (Caricaceae) fruit was shown to exhibit wound healing properties.

OBJECTIVES: We investigated anti-inflammatory and antioxidant potential of papaya fruit phosphate-buffered saline extract (PE) during wound healing and enhancement of the potentials due to trace ions addition.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: Rat excision wounds were topically treated twice/day with 20 µL of PE (5 mg extract/mL), 0.5 µg Se(2+) added PE (PES), or 100 µM Zn(2+) added PE (PEZ). Control groups were treated with deionized water (negative) and deproteinized calf blood extract ointment (Solcoseryl®, positive). Lipid peroxidation (LPX), antioxidant, proinflammatory, and arginine metabolic enzymes were estimated in the wound excised on days 4 and 10 post wounding.

RESULTS: PE (5 mg/mL; 9.80 ± 0.33 d) and PES (PE + 0.5 µg Se(2+); 8.90 ± 0.23 d) significantly (p < 0.05) reduced the average time for complete wound closure compared with the negative (13.00 ± 0.37 d) and positive (9.80 ± 0.33 d) controls, respectively. Biochemical evaluations of LPX product (malondialdehyde), antioxidant (catalase, superoxide dismutase (SOD), and glutathione peroxidase (GPx)), and pro-inflammatory (cyclooxygenase-2 and myeloperoxidase (MPO)) enzyme activities and metabolites (nitrite and urea), on days 4 and 10 post wounding, confirmed the anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties of PE and PES in this study.

DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: Treatment of excision wounds with papaya extract, especially with the addition of selenium for 10 d, reduced inflammation associated oxidative damage apparently via cyclooxygenase specific inhibition, arginine metabolism, and up-regulation of antioxidant enzymes.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2015

Erschienen:

2015

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:53

Enthalten in:

Pharmaceutical biology - 53(2015), 5 vom: 29. Mai, Seite 662-71

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Nafiu, Abdulrazaq Bidemi [VerfasserIn]
Rahman, Mohammad Tariqur [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Anti-Inflammatory Agents
Antioxidant enzyme
Antioxidants
Arginine metabolism
Journal Article
Lipid peroxidation
Plant Extracts
Proinflammatory enzymes
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Selenium
Wound healing

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Date Completed 04.01.2016

Date Revised 11.03.2015

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3109/13880209.2014.936470

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM243863861