Table 1.

Inhibitory effect of curcumin on compound 48/80-induced passive cutaneous anaphylactoid response

Curcumin or DSCG was orally administrated at 1 hour before compound 48/80 injection. Twenty micro liters of compound 48/80 (0.25 µg/site) were intradermally injected into the shaved flank of Sprague-Dawley rats. Each amount of Evans blue represents the mean±S.E.M. of five independent experiments. ^*Inhibition (%) = [(amount of Evans blue without curcumin - amount of Evans blue with curcumin)/amount of Evans blue without curcumin]×100. ^†P<0.05, significantly different from the control value.