Alocasia indica: Antimicrobial, Cytotoxic and Antioxidant activity : Medicinal plant and it's in-vitro assay

ISBN-13: 9783659206405 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 100 str.

Kaiser Hamid; Nurul Huda Md. Masum; Kaniz Fatima Urmi

Opis

This book contains information about in-vitro antimicrobial, cytotoxic and antioxidant activity of different parts of the plant Alocasia indica. Based upon these results, one may go for isolation and characterization of new cytotoxic, antimicrobial and antioxidant agent having biological activity. For the determination of antimicrobial activity, disc diffusion method, for cytotoxic activity, brine shrimp lethality bio-assay method, and for antioxidant activity six different methods were used including DPPH free radical scavenging, NO scavenging capacity assay, flavonoid content determination, determination of total phenol, reducing power capacity, and total antioxidant capacity determination.

O autorze

Mr. Kaiser Hamid has completed his Bachelor of Pharmacy (Hon's) and M.S in Pharmaceutical Science from Jahangirnagar University.Currently he is doing his PhD at the University of Sydney, Australia. Before enrolling in PhD, he was working as a Lecturer in the Department of Pharmacy, East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.