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In-vitro Antioxidant Studies of Cissus quadrangularis (L) extracts

Prabhavathi R. M, Prasad M. P. and Jayaramu M.

Cissus quadrangularis Linn, the plants have been used in traditional medicines for treatment of different ailments from ancient times. Medicinal plants have been one of the richest bio resources for traditional and folk medicines till date. In the present investigation the medicinal property of Cissus quadrangularis Linn was done by determining the antioxidant properties of different parts of the plant when eluted. belongs to the family Vitaceae. It is a wild indigenous medicinal plant found in India, locally known as Hadjod. The antioxidant property was determined by DPPH assay, DMPD assay and reducing power assay for all the samples. The DPPH reduced with the increase in the concentration of the sample and methanolic extract of root and leaf showed least IC-50 value with 600 μg/ml. The methanolic extract of the samples proved to have a higher potential to reduce DMPD with a standard concentration of sample. The methanolic leaf extracts showed higher reducing power activity. The methanolic extracts showed a better antioxidant property for all the assays when compared to the ethanolic and petroleum extract of the samples.