Gastroprotective effect of carob (Ceratonia siliqua L.) against ethanol-induced oxidative stress in rat.

Rtibi, Kaïs; Jabri, Mohamed Amine; Selmi, Slimen; Souli, Abdelaziz; Sebai, Hichem; El-Benna, Jamel; Amri, Mohamed; Marzouki, Lamjed

Background: We aimed in the present study, at investigating the gastroprotective effect of carob pods aqueous extract (CPAE) against ethanol-induced oxidative stress in rats as well as the mechanism implicated. Methods: Adult male wistar rats were used and divided into six groups of ten each: control, EtOH (80 % v/v, 4 g/kg b.w.), EtOH 80 % + various doses of CPAE (500, 1000 and 2000 mg/kg, b.w.) and EtOH + Famotidine (10 mg/kg, p.o.) Animals were perorally (p.o.) pre-treated with CPAE during 15 days and intoxicated with a single oral administration of EtOH (4 g/kg b.w.) for two hours. Results: The colorimetric analysis demonstrated that the CPAE exhibited an importance in vitro antioxidant activity against ABTS and DPPH radicals. We found that CPAE pretreatment in vivo, protected against EtOH-induced macroscopic and histological changes induced in stomach mucosa. Carob extract administration also protected against alcohol-induced volume gastric juice decrease. More importantly, We showed that CPAE counteracted EtOH-induced gastric lipoperoxidation, reversed the decrease of sulfhydryl groups (-SH) an hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) levels, and prevented the depletion of antioxidant enzyme activity of superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT) and glutathione peroxidase (GPx). Conclusions: These findings suggest that CPAE exerted a potential gastro-protective effect against EtOH-induced oxidative stress in rats, due in part, to its antioxidants properties.

THERAPEUTIC use of plant extracts; ANIMAL experimentation; ANTIOXIDANTS; DIGESTIVE organs; ETHANOL; HISTOLOGY; PEPTIC ulcer; RESEARCH funding; STATISTICAL hypothesis testing; GASTRIC diseases; TOXICITY testing; OXIDATIVE stress; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ONE-way analysis of variance

BMC Complementary & Alternative Medicine, 2015, Vol 15, Issue 1, p1

1472-6882

Academic Journal

10.1186/s12906-015-0819-9