Cassia sophera L.: Antioxidant potential profiling of different extracts of leaf, flower, seed and stem
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Cassia sophera L.: Antioxidant potential profiling of different extracts of leaf, flower, seed and stem
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Cassia sophera L. is a predominant traditional medicinal shrub as well as considered as a remedy in folk arena due to its antidysenteric, antidiarrhoeal, antipyretic, antinociceptive, anthelmintic and antioxidant effect. In the present study, the antioxidant effect of n-hexane, chloroform, ethyl acetate and methanol extract of leaf, flower, seed and stem of C. sophera L. was evaluated by DPPH (2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl) method. The assay of free radical scavenging activity of four different solvent extracts revealed that the ethyl acetate extract of leaf and stem exhibited good antioxidant activity with IC50 of 61.296 and 121.289 μg/ml respectively as compared to ascorbic acid considered as positive control. In addition, the antioxidant potential of the solvent extracts of leaf, flower, seed and stem of C. sophera L. is firstly reported in the present study except methanolic extract of leaf.
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