Antinociceptive and anti-inflammatory activity of ferula hermonis root oil in experimental animals

Ferula hermonis (Apiaceae) is a well known Middle-Eastern medicinal plant. It has long been used traditionally as an aphrodisiac agent. The antinociceptive and anti-inflammatory activities of the root oil of F. hermonis were evaluated by the hot-plate test, the acetic acid-induced writhing test and...

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Autores principales: Geroushi, Afaf, Auzi, Abdurazag A., Elhwuegi, Abdalla S., Elzawam, Fawzi, El-Sherif, Akram, Nahar, Lutfun, Sarker, Satyajit D.
Formato: Articulo Comunicacion
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2010
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Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/8085
http://www.latamjpharm.org/resumenes/29/8/LAJOP_29_8_2_2.pdf
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Sumario:Ferula hermonis (Apiaceae) is a well known Middle-Eastern medicinal plant. It has long been used traditionally as an aphrodisiac agent. The antinociceptive and anti-inflammatory activities of the root oil of F. hermonis were evaluated by the hot-plate test, the acetic acid-induced writhing test and the carragennan-induced rat paw edema test. In the hot-plate test, the root oil in oral doses of 400 and 800 mg/kg significantly increased the reaction time of animals to thermal pain, and in the acetic acid-induced writhing test, in similar oral doses it showed a considerable inhibition of acetic acid-induced writhing in mice in a dose-dependant manner. In the carrageenan induced paw oedema model, the oral administration of 50 and 100 mg/kg of F. hermonis root oil to adult Wister rats showed a statistically significant decrease in rat paw o induced by carrageenan 1 and 2 h after carrageenan injection.