EVALUATION OF DIURETIC ACTIVITY OF PLATYCLADUS ORIEANTALIS LEAVES EXTRACT
Journal Title: International Research Journal of Pharmacy (IRJP) - Year 2011, Vol 2, Issue 3
Abstract
Kidney, as excretory organ of our body serves important function of excretion of waste products, regulation of fluid volume and electrolyte content etc. Damage to kidney can lead to severe life threatening complications. Diuretics are drugs capable of increasing levels of urine. Aqueous and alcoholic extracts of the leaf of Platycladus orieantalis leaves were tested for diuretic activity in rats. The parameters studied on individual rat were body weight before and after test period, total urine volume urine concentration of Na+, K+ and Cl- . In the present study alcoholic and aqueous extracts of was investigated. Platycladus orieantalis leaves (100mg/kg of body weight) showed increase in urine volume, cation and anion excretion. Furosemide was used as reference diuretic.
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Ranju Garai , Niranjan Sutar , Pradip Yadav , Manoj Pati , Goutam Jana
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