Evaluation of Antioxidant and Antimicrobial potential of Leucas urticaefolia (Lamiaceae)

Veena Dixit,Priyanka Agnihotri,Saba Irshad,A.K Paliwal,Tariq Husain

doi:10.7324/japs.2015.54.s7

Abstract

Total phenolic and flavonoid content, antioxidant and antimicrobial activity of extracts from Tordylium maximumJelena S. MatejiÄ‡, Ana M. DÅ¾amiÄ‡, Tatjana M. Mihajilov-Krstev, Vladimir N. RanÄ‘eloviÄ‡, Zoran Ä. Krivošej, Petar D. Marin

Highlights

Medicinal plants have long been used as source of remedies and represent a rich source for potential alternatives antimicrobial agents, which may be used for the treatment of many infectious diseases
The preliminary phytochemical studies showed that the 50% EtOH extracts of L. urticaefolia gives positive results for alkaloids, carbohydrates, tannins, flavonoides, glycosides, proteins
Phenolic compounds are a class of antioxidant agents which act as free radical terminators (Shahidi, 1992) and plant extracts containing high phenolic content exhibited stronger scavenging and reducing capacity (Rekha et al, 2012, Dileep et al, 2012)

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Introduction

Medicinal plants have long been used as source of remedies and represent a rich source for potential alternatives antimicrobial agents, which may be used for the treatment of many infectious diseases. The increasing antibiotic resistance and side effects of synthetic drugs have led to the screening for more effective, less toxic and cost effective antioxidants and antimicrobials from natural sources (Bhatt and Neggi, 2012; Elizabeth, 2005). The recent studies suggested that plant products are rich source of many biologically active phenolic compounds which have been found to possess potential antioxidant as well as antimicrobial activity (Kaneria et al, 2012). Antioxidant compounds like phenolic acids, polyphenols and flavonoids. The flavonoidal glucosides (leufolins A and B) of L. urticaefolia reported to have significant inhibitory potential against the enzyme butyrylcholinesterase (Noor et al, 2007). Aqueous extract of leaves exhibited potential wound healing activity (Suthar et al, 2011)

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