In Vitro and In Vivo Wound Healing and Anti-Inflammatory Activities of Babassu Oil (Attalea speciosa Mart. Ex Spreng., Arecaceae)

Table 6

Histomorphometric analysis of babassu oil treatment in skin chronic inflammation.

Parameters	Experimental groups
		Croton oil 5% (20 µL/orelha)
	Sham (acetone, 20 µL/ear)	Control (acetone, 20 µL/ear)	Babassu oil (10 µL/ear)	Dexametasone (0.1 mg/ear)
n	5	9	8	8
Epidermal thickness (µm)	6.0 ± 0.33	48.6 ± 2.44	24.7 ± 1.67	29.4 ± 2.31
Ear thickness (µm)	103.6 ± 5.07	356.3 ± 8.98	217.2 ± 7.00	227.3 ± 13.86

Data expressed as mean ± SEM and analyzed by the MannWhitney test, considering .