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Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences

Year: 2011 | Volume: 14 | Issue: 18 | Page No.: 882-886
DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2011.882.886
Potato Disc Bioassay and Cytotoxic Effect of Leptadenia pyrotechnica: Comparative Study of Diverse Extracts
Amal M. Youssef Moustafa, Ahmed I. Khodair and Mahmoud A. Saleh

Abstract: Comparative acute toxicity studies of the latex and sequential extracts of Leptadenia pyrotechnica (Forsk.) Decne (Asclepiadaceae) were recorded using brine shrimp. The higher toxicities were exhibited in latex; methanol, methanol/dichloromethane (1:1), defatted methanol/dichloromethane (1:1), defatted methanol and dichloromethane extracts. The other extracts; aqueous, alkaloids, ethyl acetate and n-butanol exhibited less toxicities compared with the other extracts. The estimated LC50 and its 95% confidence limits for these extracts expressed in ppm were: methanol, latex 18.84 (11.22-31.61), methanol/dichloromethane 19.95 (7.76-53.70), defatted methanol/dichloromethane 21.38 (7.24-63.10), defatted methanol 28.19 (16.27-48.81) and dichloromethane 30.90 (11.75-79.43). The anti-tumor activities; potato disc assays of methanol, ethyl acetate and alkaloids extracts showed good activities as anti-tumor agent which represented-49.30,-43.20 an -33.60%, respectively. While latex and aqueous extract represented-30.80 and-28.17%, respectively.

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Amal M. Youssef Moustafa, Ahmed I. Khodair and Mahmoud A. Saleh, 2011. Potato Disc Bioassay and Cytotoxic Effect of Leptadenia pyrotechnica: Comparative Study of Diverse Extracts. Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences, 14: 882-886.

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