Experiment 951153
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| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | ORAL |
| Organism | Oenothera biennis (ONAGRACEAE) |
| Citation | SCHAFER,L: KRAGBALLE,K:. (1991). SUPPLEMENTATION WITH EVENING PRIMROSE OIL IN ATOPIC DERMATITIS: EFFECT ON FATTY ACIDS IN NEUTROPHILS AND EPIDERMIS.. 26(7) |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | 15 PATIENTS WITH ATOPIC DERMATITIS WERE GIVEN DAILY DOSE OF PRIMROSE OIL FOR 10 WEEKS. DIHOMO-GAMMA-LINOLENIC ACID INCREASED IN LESION-FREE EPIDERMAL PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE BY 46% AND IN PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE BY 15%. EPIDERMAL PHOSPHOLIPIDS SHOWED A SIGNIFICANT RISE IN RATIO OF N-6 TO MONO-UNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS. |
| Dose amount | 6.0 GM |
| Number | 2 |
| Qualitative result | ACTIVE |
| Animal | HUMAN ADULT |
| Per unit | PERSON |
| Dose expression | DOSE |
| Extract | SEED OIL |