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KMID : 1200820120120010067
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Oriental Pharmacy and Experimental Medicine
2012 Volume.12 No. 1 p.67 ~ p.73
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Antioxidant, analgesic, cytotoxic and antidiarrheal activities of ethanolic Zizyphus mauritiana bark extract
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Rahman Shafiur
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Abstract
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The primary objective of this study was to investigate the pharmacological potential of the ethanolic extract of Zizyphus mauritiana bark. Antioxidant, analgesic, cytotoxic and antidiarrheal activities of the extract were investigated using 1, 1-diphenyl-2-picryl hydrazyl (DPPH) free radical scavenging assay, acetic acid induced writhing inhibition, brine shrimp lethality bioassay and castor oil induced diarrhea inhibition respectively. The extract showed remarkable free radical scavenging activity with an IC50 of 27.47 μg/mL. The extract produced significant (P?
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KEYWORD
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Zizyphus mauritiana, Antioxidant activity, Analgesic activity, Cytotoxic activity, Antidiarrheal activity, Medicinal plant
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