| Autor: |
Agboola, O. I., Ajayi, G. O., Adesegun, S. A., Adesanya, S. A. |
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Pharmacognosy Journal; Sep2011, Vol. 3 Issue 25, p63-66, 4p, 3 Charts |
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Introduction: The plant is used in ethno-medicine as a fish poison and belongs to family known to contain saponins which are toxic to cold-blooded animals including snails acting as vectors of organisms responsible for many human diseases including schistosomiasis. Methods: The mollusccidal activities of 50% ethanolic extracts of the seeds, fruit pericarp, leaves and stem bark as well as the fractions of the fruit pericarp of B unijugata Baker were evaluated on Biomphalaria glabrata.snails Results: The crude extract of fruit pericarp was the most active among the morphological parts tested with LC50 of 15 μg/ml while Ethyl-Acetate fractions showed the highest activity of the 3 fractions with a LC50 of 7.6 μg/ml and satisfied the condition set by World Health Organization for a potential plant molluscicides either as a crude extract or as a fractions Conclusions: the results confirmed the ethno-medicinal uses of the plant and can be so regarded as a potential molluscicides in the snail vector of schistsomiasis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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