A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF IN VITRO ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY AND TLC STUDIES OF PETALS OF SELECTED INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS
| Autor: | Vijayalakshmi Melanathuru, Sankaranarayanan Sundaram, Sumathy Rengarajan, Deecaraman Munuswamy, S. Selvaraj |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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0301 basic medicine
Pharmacology 030102 biochemistry & molecular biology biology Traditional medicine fungi Pharmaceutical Science Hibiscus biology.organism_classification 03 medical and health sciences Phytochemical Cassia Botany Pharmacology (medical) Petal Agar diffusion test Antibacterial activity Medicinal plants Antibacterial agent |
| Zdroj: | Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical and Clinical Research. 9:259 |
| ISSN: | 2455-3891 0974-2441 |
| Popis: | Objective: The present study was to evaluate the in vitro antibacterial activity, and thin-layer chromatography (TLC) studies from the petals of four different Indian medicinal plants (Punica granatum, Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, Cassia auriculata, and Moringa oleifera). Methods: The phytochemical screening of the methanol extract of petals of four different Indian medicinal plants was performed using standard procedures. The antimicrobial activity was tested against various test organisms using the agar disc diffusion method. Results: The preliminary phytochemical screening for petals of four different medicinal plants revealed the presence of flavonoids, alkaloids, tannins, and saponins. From the above study, the results indicated that the methanol extract of M. oleifera petals showed the highest antimicrobial activity against Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus subtilis with zone of inhibition 17.93 and 23.40, respectively, at the concentration of 20 μl/ml and also showed the maximum inhibitory activity at the highest concentration (20 μl/ml) than the lowest concentration (5 μl/ml) against Gram-negative bacteria such as Escherichia coli, Proteus vulgaris, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Gram-positive B. subtilis and S. aureus. TLC studies of methanol extracts of petals of Indian medicinal plants revealed the presence of different phytoconstituents as evidenced by separated compounds with different Rf values. Conclusion: The results obtained in the present study indicate that the petals of four different Indian medicinal plants showed the highest antibacterial activity and can be used as an antibacterial agent against bacterial diseases. Keywords: Phytochemicals, Antibacterial activity, Thin-layer chromatography. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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