scholarly journals Anti-Inflammatory, Antioxidant and Anti-Diarrheal Effects of Ethanol Extract of Stephania Japonica

1970 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 437-442
Author(s):  
NU Ahmed ◽  
R Akter ◽  
Mohammed A Satter ◽  
MS Khan ◽  
F Islam ◽  
...  

The present study was carried out to investigate anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and anti-diarrheal effect of ethanol extract of Stephania japonica. This study showed that the plant extract has significant (p<0.05) anti-inflammatory effect at all phases of carrageenan induced inflammation at a dose level 2g/kg. The DPPH free radical scavenging effect of the extract was compared with standard antioxidant ascorbic acid. IC50 values were found 33.57 μg/ml for the extract and 15.57 μg/ml for ascorbic acid. S. japonica extract at dosage level 2g/kg and 1g/kg decreased the gastrointestinal motility 36.56 and 21.53 %, respectively, in rats. The ethanol extract of the plant also reduced the total number of feces as well as wet feces of rats in castor oil-induced diarrheal model. The results revealed that the extract possesses promising anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and antidiarrheal activity. Keywords: Anti-inflammatory; Antioxidant; Anti-diarrheal; Stephania japonica DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjsir.v46i4.9587 BJSIR 2011; 46(4): 437-442

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sri Adi Sumiwi ◽  
Anas Subarnas ◽  
Supriyatna Supriyatna ◽  
Marline Abdassah Bratadiredja

Sintoc (Cinnamomum sintoc Bl.) is a plant which is used as medicine. This plant has been known to have an analgesic antiinflamatory activity, therefore it is predicted to have an antioxidant activity. An investigation on antioxidant activity of sintoc essential oils and ethanolic extract of its cortex using ascorbic acid as standard has been carried out. Essential oils and ethanol extract of sintoc cortex was tested using DPPH (1,1-diphenyl-2-pikril-hidrazil) by measuring absorbance using visible spectrophotometer at 518 nm. The methods of this research were distillation of essential oils and extraction of sintoc cortex, determination of the essential oil and extract concentrations required for 50% inhibition of DPPH radical scavenging effect (IC50) with ascorbic acid as the possitive control. The variation concentration  of essential oils are 15, 5, 1, 0.1, 0.5 ppm and 25, 20, 17, 15, 10 ppm for ethanolic extracts. The results showed that the essential oil showed antioxidant activity with IC50 value was 16.29 ppm (5 times lower than ascorbic acid) and then ethanolic extract showed IC50 value 38.89 ppm (11 times lower than ascorbic acid, IC50 of ascorbic acid was 3.35 ppm).


INDIAN DRUGS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (06) ◽  
pp. 49-59
Author(s):  
Priyambada Kshiroda Nandini Sarangi ◽  
Jyotirmaya Sahoo ◽  
Chita Ranjan Sahoo ◽  
Sudhir Kumar Paidesetty ◽  
Guru Prasad Mohanta

A series of eight quinoline-thiazole hybrid-bearing diazenylsulfonamides, 4a-4h, were synthesized and characterized by UV-Vis, FT/IR, 1H NMR and lC-MS. These compounds were formed when two prepared intermediate precursors of Schiff-base compounds, (E)-N-((2-chloroquinolin-3-yl)methylene)-4phenylthiazol-2-amine (3a) and (E)-N-((2-chloroquinolin-3-yl)methylene)-4-chlorophenylthiazol-2-amine (3b) were converted to the corresponding diazenyl compounds 4a-4h by treating and coupling with the individual diazonium salts of sulfa-drugs. The results of in vitro cytotoxic activity of the synthesized compounds in two cancer cell lines MCF 7 (human breast cancer cell line) and K562 (myelogenousleukemia cell line) have shown the IC50 values as given: 4b against MCF 7 19.52 and against K562 20.55µM; 4d against MCF 7 15.96 and against K562 13.05µM. Moreover, the compound 4-(((Z)-(2-chloroquinolin-3yl)(4-phenylthiazol-2-ylimino)methyl)diazenyl)benzenesulfonic acid (4d) induced maximum percentage of apoptosis. Furthermore, the in vitro antioxidant activity study revealed that among all the synthesized compounds, compound 4d has an excellent radical scavenging effect. Molecular docking was additionally performed to investigate the binding affinity of H-bonding interaction of synthesized compounds with a targeted enzyme and to compare it with the anticancer drugs, dasatinib, bosutinib and dacarbazine.


2015 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 6-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thiyagarajan Rajeshwari ◽  
Boobalan Raja

This study was planned to assess the antioxidant and free radical scavenging effect of D-carvone against L-NAME (Nω-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester hydrochloride) induced hypertension. Hypertension was encouraged in adult male albino rats of the Wistar strain, considering 180–230 g, by oral administration of the L-NAME (40 mg/kg/ body weight/day) in drinking water for 4 weeks. Rats were cured with D-carvone (5, 10 and 20 mg/kg body weight) for four weeks. A significant reduction in the levels of non-enzymatic antioxidants such as vitamin C, vitamin E and reduced glutathione (GSH), in plasma were perceived in L-NAME induced hypertensive rats. Moreover, in vitro free radical scavenging activity of ABTS+ and DPPH• radical scavenging possible of D-carvone was also quantified. Treatment with D-carvone (5, 10 and 20 mg/kg bw) carries back all the above parameters to near usual level, in which 20 mg/kg displayed the highest effect than that of other two doses. Further, D-carvone displays concentration dependent antioxidant potential. These results suggest that D-carvone acts as an antioxidant and free radical scavenging agent against L-NAME induced hypertension.


2007 ◽  
Vol 62 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 447-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Tapia ◽  
José Cheel ◽  
Cristina Theoduloz ◽  
Jaime Rodríguez ◽  
Guillermo Schmeda-Hirschmann ◽  
...  

The biomass production of Cymbopogon citratus shoots cultivated in bioreactors according to the temporary immersion (TIS) principle was assessed under different growth conditions. The effect of gassing with CO2-enriched air, reduced immersion frequency, vessel size and culture time on total phenolic and flavonoid content and free radical scavenging effect of the methanolic extracts was measured. From the TIS-culture of C. citratus, seven compounds were isolated and identified as caffeic acid (1), chlorogenic acid (2), neochlorogenic acid (3), p-hydroxybenzoic acid (4), p-hydroxybenzoic acid 3-O-β-d-glucoside (5), glutamic acid (6) and luteolin 6-C-fucopyranoside (7). The occurrence of compounds 1-7 and their variability in C. citratus grown under different TIS conditions was determined by HPLC. The free radical scavenging effect of the methanolic extract and compounds was measured by the discoloration of the free radical 1,1- diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH). The main metabolites in 6- and 8-week-old cultures, both in 5 and 10 l vessels, were chlorogenic acid (2) (100D113 mg%) and neochlorogenic acid (3) (80 - 119 mg%), while in the cultures with CO2-enriched air and reduced immersion frequency the main compound detected in the extracts was glutamic acid (6) (400 and 670 mg% for the green and white biomass and 619 and 630 mg% for the green and white biomass, respectively). The most active compounds, as free radical scavengers, in the DPPH discoloration assay were caffeic acid (1), chlorogenic acid (2), neochlorogenic acid (3) and the flavonoid luteolin 6-C-fucopyranoside (7).


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