Antiamebic activity of marine sponge Haliclona exigua (Krikpatrick)

Lakshmi, V; Saxena, A; Mishra, SK; Mishra, M; Srivastava, S; Ghoshal, S

HERO ID

1131067

Reference Type

Journal Article

Year

2009

Language

English

HERO ID 1131067
In Press No
Year 2009
Title Antiamebic activity of marine sponge Haliclona exigua (Krikpatrick)
Authors Lakshmi, V; Saxena, A; Mishra, SK; Mishra, M; Srivastava, S; Ghoshal, S
Journal Bangladesh Journal of Pharmacology
Volume 4
Issue 1
Page Numbers 55-59
Abstract The methanol and methanol-chloroform (1:1) extracts of the freshly collected Haliclona exigua showed minumim inhibitory concentration (MIC) of 125 mu g/ml and 250 mu g/ml respectively in in vitro studies, but when both of these were tested in vivo in rats, only methanol-chloroform showed 80% inhibition of trophozoites at the dose of 900 mg/kg body weight against Entameba histolytica. Therefore only methanol-chloroform extract was further fractionated into four fractions (n-hexane, chloroform, n-butanol soluble and n-butanol insoluble fractions). Out of these, only n-hexane and n-butanol soluble fractions showed 80% inhibition of trophozoites at 900 mg/kg dose. Further the chromatography of the n-butanol fraction yielded araguspongin-C which showed promising results at different doses.
Doi 10.3329/bjp.v4i1.1083
Wosid WOS:000270091100013
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Language Text English
Keyword Alkaloid; Anti-amebic activity; Araguspongin-C; Haliclona exigua; Marine sponge
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