Pdf in vitro antioxidant and antiproliferative activity. The antioxidant activity of these two medicinal plants was evaluated by measuring reducing ability, free radical scavenging activity by dpph and hydrogen peroxide methods. Phytochemical screening, antimicrobial and antioxidant. The aim of this work was to study the structure activity relationships of the antioxidant activity of natural coumarins isolated from four korean medicinal plants 117 and four purchased coumarins 1821.
Plant samples were collected in different locations in the state of amazonas, brazil. Green tea, oligomeric procyanidins from grape seed and pine bark, bilberry, and ginkgo exhibited taa in the range of 5. Actinomycete endophytes from the ethno medicinal plants of. Antioxidant activity, phenolic content, and peroxide value of. Among 23 extracts of medicinal and edible plants tested, mauritia flexuosa l. Review medicinal plants with antiarticle inflammatory activity. Journal of biologically active products from nature. Evaluation of antioxidant activity of five medicinal.
Previous studies showed that a wide range of medicinal plants exerted antioxidant and free radical scavenging activity. School of biotechnology, yeungnam university, gyeongsan, gyeongbuk 712749, republic of korea 2. Ms, while the antioxidant activity was done using dpph and. Anticancer activity, antioxidant activity, and phenolic. Minimal bactericidal concentration of metanoic extracts ranged from 12. Research article open access antioxidant activity, total. Antibacterial and antioxidant activities of 8 aromatic plants from the balkan peninsula were studied. The antioxidant activity was evaluated in a biological assay using saccharomyces cerevisiae, whereas the radical scavenging activity was measured using the 2,2diphenyl1picrylhydrazyl dpph. Antibacterial and antioxidant activities of endophytic fungi. The present paper is to update a list of medicinal plants used in the treatment of hepatitis and evaluate their liver protection by ethnopharmacological and pathological studies. Witch hazel, propolis epid, artichoke, and hawthorn afforded. Jan 01, 2015 medicinal plants have been used in virtually all cultures as a source of medicine. Comparative analysis of antioxidant activity in various plant species. Pg and research department of zoology, presidency college, chennai600005, tamil nadu, india.
Thin layer chromatography tlc bioautography guided screenings were done to evaluate antibacterial and antioxidant activities. Effect of extraction solventtechnique on the antioxidant. Antioxidant activity of selected medicinal plants journal. The antioxidant, antiinflammatory, and cytotoxic activities of water and ethanol extracts of 14 chinese medicinal plants were investigated and also their total phenolics and flavonoid contents measured. Antioxidant activity of some selected medicinal plants in. Antioxidantbased drug formulations are used for the prevention and treatment of complex diseases like atherosclerosis, stroke, diabetes, alzheimers. Also, the oxidant antioxidant balance is critically discussed. Caffea arabica showed greater antioxidant activity measured as scavenging of dpph, superoxide radicals, reducing power and inhibition of microsomal lipid peroxidation. The evaluation of antioxidant activity of food and medicinal plants can be performed using chemicalbased assays and cellularbased assays. The major plant compounds characterized by antioxidant activity are polyphenols. Fungi of the ganoderma genus contain bioactive components such as terpenoids, polysaccharides, steroids, phenolic compounds and glycoproteins. The ferric reducing power of plant extract was determined using. Ethiopia is one of the developing countries which have enormous diversity of plants. Antibacterial and antioxidant activity of traditional medicinal plants.
Total polyphenols and antioxidant activity of ganoderma curtisii extracts huerta aguilar ivone, molina torres jorge, garnica romo ma. Tragopogon porrifolius, commonly referred to as white salsify, is an edible herb used in folk medicine to treat cancer. Evaluation of antioxidant activity of two important memory. The study was performed on centaurea cyanus, chamomilla recutita, majorana hortensis, ocimum basilicum, plantago lanceolata, sinapis alba, and valeriana officinalis harvested in lithuania, poland, and ukraine. Antioxidant properties, characterization of nutrients, and. Phytochemical screening and antioxidant activity of. Phytochemical profiles and antioxidant activity of grasses. Antioxidant capacity determination in plants and plant. Antioxidant activities of coumarins from korean medicinal. Thus, our present study aimed to investigate the antioxidant activity of n. Among the important biological properties exhibited by plant polyphenols, their antioxidant activity has raised a great interest. Sham prasad bio medicinal research laboratory, vidya herbs pvt.
Antioxidant activity of some common medicinal plants. Antioxidants and plants have a close relationship and many plants are used as antioxidants in decoctions made in ayurvedic medicines. Pdf antioxidant activity of water extracts of some. In vitro anticancer activity on du145 and pc3 human prostate cancer cell lines was evaluated by 34, 5dimethyl thiazole2yl2, 5diphenyl tetrazolium bromide mtt assay. Antimicrobial and antioxidant activity of leaf extracts of. A significant correlation was established between the orac and the tbars tests, confirming that the antioxidant. Antioxidant activity exhibited by medicinal plants, vegetables and fruits from north of iran reyhaneh sariri department of biology, lahijan branch, islamic azad university, lahijan, iran.
Table 1 dpph and abts scavenger effect of plant extracts, %. Pdf antioxidant activity of water extracts of some medicinal plants. Antimicrobial, antioxidant and cytotoxicity studies of. Antimicrobial and antioxidant activities of medicinal. Medicinal plants have always been a common source of medicaments either in the form of traditional preparations or as pure active principles. Natural antioxidants in foods and medicinal plants. Plants are an important source of natural active products that are different, based on mechanism and biological properties.
Antioxidant activity assessment of plants used in huastec. Infusions of all studied plants have shown antioxidant activity, though there was a large diversity between the results. Evaluation of antioxidant activity of medicinal plant. The antioxidant activity was tested using 2,2diphenyl1picrylhydrazyl, ferric ion reducing power assay, and phosphomolybdenum assay. Effect of extraction solventtechnique on the antioxidant activity of selected medicinal plant extracts bushra sultana 1, farooq anwar 1, and muhammad ashraf 2 1 department of chemistry and biochemistry, university of agriculture, faisalabad38040, pakistan 2 department of botany, university of agriculture, faisalabad38040, pakistan. Aditi kotharichhajer, abdus samad, reema, kirtanavasu, jyotsna karan, aditi, chitra dhiman and neelanjana ray. However, reports about the contents of these two plant species are scarce. Sod, cat, and asa peroxidase activity of leaves and seeds extracts of n. Antimicrobial, antioxidant and cytotoxicity studies of medicinal plants used in the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases tshikalange t e, mamba p, adebayo s a department of plant and soil sciences, university of pretoria, p bag x20, hatfield 0028 available online.
Our aim was to determine the differences in selenium concentrations, total polyphenols, and the antioxidant activity in samespecies samples from different regions. Antioxidant and antilipid peroxidation activities of. Antioxidant activity of water extracts of some medicinal plants from. The extracts were analyzed for their total phenolic content tpc, total flavonoid content tfc, and antioxidant activity aa. Antioxidant activity exhibited by medicinal plants. Research article phytochemical profile and antibacterial. Antioxidant activity, total phenolic and flavonoid content.
The ability of the plant extract to scavenge dpph free radicals was assessed by the standard method and adopted. Evaluation of antioxidant activity of medicinal plant extracts produced for commercial purpose a. Pharmacological activities of baheda terminalia bellerica. Plants and their parts such as roots, stems, barks, leaves, flowers, fruits, seeds and exudates form an important major constituent of drugs used in traditional herbal medicinal systems.
Antioxidant activity, phenolic compounds and phytochemical screening. Materials and methods leaf extraction the leaves of aegle marmelos were collected from in and around areas of thanjavur, tamil nadu, india. Antioxidant activity the antioxidant activities of the plant extracts in the study. Phytochemical profile and antibacterial and antioxidant activities of. Antioxidant activities a special issue journal published by hindawi focus on natural products research has been increasing all over the world. Fifty methanolic extracts of selected sudanese medicinal plants were evaluated for their in vitro tyrosinase inhibitory effect, antioxidant activity and total phenolic content tpc. Pharmacologically active flavonoids from the anticancer. Extract, free radical, antioxidant activity, medicinal plant.
Journal of medicinal plant research vol 624pp 40824086 26 june, 2012. Biological activity is the basis for traditional medicine, which uses the pharmacological efficacy of natural compounds present in herbal preparations for treating human diseases 1. To investigate the antioxidant activity, sod, figure 1. Medicinal plants are rich in antioxidant and proved best as antimicrobial agents. Antioxidant, antiinflammatory, acetylcholinesterase and. Significance of antioxidant potential of plants and its relevance to therapeutic applications. Abstract identification and characterization of natural products with antioxidant and antiproliferative activity has received much interest over the past few years. Herbal drugs are achieving popularity as compared to allopathic drugs the reasons includes adverse effects of manmade antibiotics, the prompt surge in contagious diseases, the resistance of drug in microbes. Antioxidant activity and peroxidase inhibition of amazonian plants. The antioxidant activity and total contents of phenolic compounds and flavonoids in extracts of several medicinal plants from southeastern kazakhstan are studied. In vitro antioxidant activity and phytochemical screening of garhwal. The highest value of peroxide is found in butylated hydroxy anisole bha containing oils, when monitored from 0 to 28 days and values were in order of 2. Antibacterial and antioxidant activity of traditional.
Antioxidant activity, total phenolic and flavonoid content of selected kenyan medicinal plants, sea algae and medicinal wild mushrooms belinda nasike siangu1, swaleh sauda1, mwonjoria kingori john2 and wilson mbiti njue1 1department of chemistry, school of pure and applied sciences, kenyatta university, box 4384400100, nairobi, kenya. Antiobesity and antioxidant activities of selected medicinal. Natural antioxidants are present in plants in various amounts. Aspects related to oxidative stress, reactive oxidative species influence on key biomolecules, and antioxidant benefits and modalities of action are discussed.
The antioxidant properties, determined with dpph and abts scavenging assays as well as frap test, were strongly correlated with total phenolic content, while there was no correlation with the carotenoid content. The total phenolic contents and flavonoid contents were also determined. Antioxidant properties of medicinal plants from peru. Plants contain a wide variety of free radical scavenging molecules, such as polyphenols, dietary glutathione, vitamins and endogenous metabolites. Plants have a great potential for producing new drugsand used in traditional medicine to treat chronic and even infectious diseases. Amazon medicinal plants, antioxidants, citotoxicity, reactive oxygen species, free radical scavenging. Future source of new drugs arvind kumar shakya abstract india has a long history and strong base for ayurveda, which is the traditional herbal medical system. Antioxidant activity the results for the dpphradicalscavenging activity of. Objective the objective of the study was to investigate the antioxidant activity of selected medicinal plants. Total phenolic contents were determined using a spectrophotometric technique and calculated as gallic acid equivalents. Results showed that both of ethanolic and water extracts of some plant possessed high cytotoxic and antioxidant activities and inhibited the cell growth of cancer cells. Study design by correlate different study and article about the antiangiogenic activity of different plant available in iraq and make collection of different information of medicinal plant grow in iraq. Jan 05, 2017 assessment of antioxidant capacity of natural products has been regarded as a basis for ranking the antioxidant plants and recommending best antioxidant foods for consumption. Screening of edible plants in sri lanka for antioxidant.
The cold methanol plant extracts were screened for the antioxidant activity evaluating their 2,2diphenyl1picrylhydrazyl dpph radical in scavenging ability. Celery apium graveolens l is a plant from the apiaceae family and phenolic and antioxidant compounds of this plant have been studied by several scientists. Antioxidant activity of medicinal plants from southeastern. Antioxidants or inhibitors of oxidation are compounds which retard or prevent the oxidation and in general prolong the life of the oxidizable matter. Grasses are a valuable group of monocotyledonous plants, used as nourishing foods and as remedies against diseases for both humans and livestock. Antioxidant activity of some selected medicinal plants in southern region of india. Phytochemical screening and evaluation of in vitro antioxidant and. We use cookies to offer you a better experience, personalize content, tailor advertising, provide social media features, and better understand the use of our services. Moisture, ash content and acid insoluble ash of different medicinal plants. Evaluation of antioxidant properties of 20 medicinal plant. Antityrosinase, total phenolic content and antioxidant. The most common and widely distributed group of phenolic compounds in plants is flavonoids.
Phytochemical screening showed the presence of alkaloids, flavonoids, phenols, saponins, triterpenoids and. Research article open access antioxidant activity, total phenolic and total. Herbal plants play an important role in preventing and treating of human diseases. In vitro antioxidant and anticancer activity of leea. The collected leaves were washed with running tap water and shade dried. Zygophyllaceae and arthrophytum scoparium chenpodiacea, two. Antiobesity and antioxidant activities of selected medicinal plants and phytochemical profiling of bioactive compounds.
The aim of this study was to screen various solvent extracts of brucea antidysenterica leaf to display potent antioxidant activity in vitro, total phenolic and flavonoid contents in order to find possible sources for future novel antioxidant activity in pharmaceutical formulations. Aug 19, 2010 antioxidant properties have been attributed to the essential oils but a great diversity of results has been reported, mainly attributed to the chemical composition of the essential oils and the diversity of tests used. Three in vitro tests for antioxidant activity, the dpph radical scavenging test, hydroxyl scavenging test, and lipid peroxidation assay, were used to assess the antioxidant properties of the methanol extracts of 10 medicinal plants table 1. Numerous plant species have been utilised as traditional medicines by. Keeping the above in view the present chapter focuses on the i diversity of antioxidant phytochemicals in medicinal. These phytochemicals are now can be used in drug discovery for the treatment of infectious dieseases2426. Method collected plant species were subjected to maceration in methanol for 72 hrs.
In the present investigation, the commonly accepted assays viz dpph, frap and abts were used for the evaluation of antioxidant activity of plant extracts. The antioxidant activity of polyphenols is accredited to their redox properties i. Pdf antioxidant activity of selected medicinal plants of. Medicinal plants, also called medicinal herbs, have been discovered and used in traditional medicine practices since prehistoric times. Majority of the diseases disorders are mainly linked to oxidative stress due to free radicals. Antioxidant activity was evaluated in vitro using the cationradical 2,2. Results show that some of these drugs have prominent therapeutic effects. The antibacterial activity was done against staphylococcus aureus.
Significance of antioxidant potential of plants and its. Antioxidant activity of polyphenolic plant extracts. Dec 19, 2016 butylated hydroxytoluene bht and extracts 600 and 1200 ppm o. Commonly used medicinal plant extracts with standardized content of polyphenols were investigated for their total antioxidant activity taa. Guadalupe, yahuaca juarez berenice abstract background. To establish the polyphenolic contents and antioxidant activity of these plants by ferric ionreducing activity frap and 2,2diphenyl1picrylhydrazyl dpph methods, local plants were harvested in flowering stage. The type of plant and its antioxidant activity depends entirely to the region that plant grows and. This study was conducted to evaluate the invitro antimicrobial, antioxidant and anticancer assays and. Antioxidant activity of medicinal and aromatic plants. Polyphenolic contents and antioxidant activities of two. Actinomycete endophytes from the ethno medicinal plants of southern india.
Antibacterial and antioxidant activities of endophytic. Assurance of the safety, quality, and efficacy of medicinal plants and herbal products has now become a key issue in industrialized and in developing countries. In fact, several in vitro assays for the determination of antioxidant ability have been used. To evaluate the antioxidant and antimicrobial properties of a. To correlate the antiangiogenic effect of medicinal plants available in iraq. The majority of the antioxidant activity is due to the flavones, isoflavones, flavonoids, anthocyanin, coumarin lignans, catechins and isocatechins 1. Many medicinal plants contain large amounts of antioxidants such as. Minimal inhibitory concentration of metanoic extracts ranged from 6. Qualitative phytochemical screening and the quanti cation. Pdf phytochemical screening and antioxidant activity of. Together, all 3 tests provide a better assessment of antioxidant properties than separately. The results of the present study revealed significant abundance of active principles in selected medicinal plants and active potency for antioxidant activity.
This study was undertaken to investigate antioxidant activities of some medicinal plants from herzegovina region that are daily used. Introduction the many number of medicinal plants are used in the cellular and metabolic disease. Plants synthesise hundreds of chemical compounds for functions including defence against insects, fungi, diseases, and herbivorous mammals. A number of studies have shown that plant polyphenols can be used as antioxidants against different oxidative stressinduced diseases 2,3. Plant extracts 1 ml at different concentrations were mixed with. The antioxidant activity of the 90 plant extracts was determined by 2, 2 diphenyl1picrylhydrazyl dpph assay.
The antioxidant activity, total peroxide values, and total phenol contents of several medicinal and aromatic plant essential oil and extracts from turkey were examined. Free radicals scavenging activity and reducing power of two algerian sahara medicinal plants extracts abderrahim benslama and abdenassar harrar abstract the aim of this study is to evaluate antioxidant activity of aqueous aq. Consumption of edible plant as greens and vegetables has been in the practice for long years as a source of vitamins, fibers, antioxidants, and other medicinal. Pdf medicinal plants with antioxidant and free radical. People have been using plants as a traditional medicine for thousand years ago. Pdf endophytic fungi of some medicinal plants in egypt. Estimation of phytochemical content and antioxidant.
Medicinal plants used for the treatment of hepatitis in taiwan. This study investigated on the antioxidant properties of five medicinal plants used in sri lanka, namely solanum nigrum, amaranthus spinosus, elephantopuss caber, amorphophallus campanulatus and canna indica. Du journal of undergraduate research and innovation volume 2, issue 1 pp 712, 2016. The flora of sudan is relatively rich in medicinal plants and represents an important component of traditional medicine. Antioxidant activity of plant extracts was assessed by. In the present study, a brief description of the mechanism involved in the majority of techniques used for the evaluation of antioxidant activity of essential oils is given. Antioxidant and antiinflammatory activities of selected. At the same time, the antioxidant activities of some essential oils, measured through. The antioxidants compounds like ascorbic acid, total phenols and tannins were also evaluated in these plants. Many plant extracts have been reported to have multiple biological effects, including. Samples of tragopogon porrifolius plant grown wild in palestine were extracted with different solvents. Comparative analysis of antioxidant activity in various. The antibacterial and antioxidant activities and phytochemical contents of extracts, obtained from eight medicinal plants used by aboriginal people of new south wales, australia, for the treatment of skin related ailments, were assessed to add value to and provide an.
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