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Natural Product Research
Formerly Natural Product Letters
Volume 35, 2021 - Issue 24
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The anti-inflammatory, anti-ulcer activities and phytochemical investigation of Cucumis melo L. cv. Ismailawi fruits

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Pages 5934-5938 | Received 16 Apr 2020, Accepted 19 Jul 2020, Published online: 10 Aug 2020
 

Abstract

This study aims to evaluate the anti-inflammatory and anti-ulcer activities of Cucumis melo L. cv. Ismailawi fruits, as well as the investigation of the phenolic content and lipoidal matter composition via high performance liquid chromatography and gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry respectively. Both the petroleum ether and defatted methanol extracts of the fruit pulp showed 63.13% and 54.97% decrease in oedema volume respectively after 4 h in comparison to indomethacin standard drug. Both the petroleum ether extract and ethyl acetate fractions at a dose (200 mg/kg) showed significant anti-ulcer activity decreasing both ulcer number and severity in comparison to ranitidine as standard drug. Histopathological investigation further confirmed these results. Moreover; this is the first report for the investigation of the phenolic content and the lipoidal matter of Cucumis melo L. cv. Ismailawi fruits where methyl palmatate, gallic acid and rutin represented the major detected components.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to express their gratitude to the taxonomists, Professor Dr Mohamed Abd Al-Salam, Faculty of Agriculture, Suez Canal University and Dr Ahmed Abd-El-Mogali, Agriculture Research Centre, Giza, Egypt for the identification of the plant under investigation.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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