Table 4.

Potential anti-inflammatory activity exhibited by the cold-pressed seed oils of apricot, peach, cherry, black cherry, and plum, assessed through the capacity of the oils to inhibit the denaturation of the bovine serum albumin (BSA).

	IC 50 (± SD) (μg of oil need to inhibit at 50% the bovine serum albumin denaturation)
Apricot	3.292a (± 0.206)
Peach	3.428a (± 0.415)
Cherry	4.339 (± 0.403)
Black cherry	3.864b (± 0.47)
Plum	3.379a (± 0.997)
Diclofenac	5.475 (± 0.32)

The data are reported as IC50 (± SD) representing the amount of the oils (μg) need to inhibit the BSA denaturation at 50%.

The experiments were performed in triplicate and herein is reported the average (± SD).

^a: p < 0.1;

^b: p < 0.01 compared with the diclofenac used as control (ANOVA followed by Dunnett's multiple comparison test).