PHYTOCHEMICAL SCREENING AND ANALGESIC, ANTI-BACTERIAL AND CYTOTOXIC ACTIVITY EVALUATION OF ETHANOL EXTRACT OF PITHCELLOBIUM DULCE ( ROXB.) BENTH LEAF
Journal Title: Asian Journal of Pharamceutical and Clinical Research - Year 2015, Vol 8, Issue 2
Abstract
 Introduction: Pithcellobium dulce (Roxb.) benth, tree 5-18 m high, with pendulous branches, short, sharp stipular spines. It belongs to Fabaceaefamily. This plant’s accession number is 31,388 as per Bangladesh national herbarium.Methods: For the investigation of its phytochemical and biological activities, the concentrated ethanolic extract of the leaf were extracted.Objective: This crude extract was tested for the presence of various chemical groups and alkaloid, flavonoids, saponin and reducing sugar wereidentified. The traditional medicinal use of this plant prompted us to check analgesic, anti-bacterial, anti-diarrheal and cytotoxic effects.Result and Discussion: The ethanol extract of the leaf produced 29.4% and 61.54% protection or writhing inhibition in mice at orally dosage of250 mg/kg (p<0.001) and 500 mg/kg (p<0.001) body weight of mice, respectively. This was comparable to the standard drug diclofenac sodium atthe dose of 25 mg/kg of body weight. This extract increased mean latent period and decreased the frequency of defecation significantly at the oraldose of 500 mg/kg body weight, which is also comparable to standard loperamide at dose of 50 mg/kg body weight. This leaf extract also showedantimicrobial activity only against shigella dyst-1 among 10 bacterial species culture. In addition, it also showed cytotoxic effect-50% (LC50) mortalityof Brine Shrimp nauplii occurred at 20 μg/ml and 90% (LC90) mortality at 80 μg/ml ethanolic leaves crude extract.Conclusion: Most of the medicinal plants of Bangladesh have more or less biological activity. It was a preliminary study; further study can be done forthe fulfillment of this experiment based on different extract concentration.Keywords: Reagent, Dulce, Extract, Benth Leaf.
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Sujit Biswas, Md. Harun Ur Rashid, Amdadul Huque, Jamilur Rahman Bhuiyan
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