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ArticleJournal of intercultural ethnopharmacology

Antimicrobial and antioxidant effect of methanolic Crinum jagus bulb extract in wound healing.

Sunday Ositadimma Udegbunam, Rita Ijeoma Udegbunam, Theophilus Okafor Nnaji, Madubuike Umunna Anyanwu, Raphel Okoli Chukwujekwu Kene, Silavanus Maduka Anika

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Sunday Ositadimma UdegbunamDepartment of Veterinary Surgery, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria.
Rita Ijeoma UdegbunamDepartment of Veterinary Surgery, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria.
Theophilus Okafor NnajiDepartment of Veterinary Surgery, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria.
Madubuike Umunna AnyanwuDepartment of Veterinary Pathology and Microbiology, Microbiology Unit, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria.
Raphel Okoli Chukwujekwu KeneDepartment of Veterinary Surgery, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria.
Silavanus Maduka AnikaDepartment of Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

aimThe aim of this study was to evaluate the antimicrobial and antioxidant effects of Crinum jagus (J. Thomps.) Dandy methanolic bulb extract in wound healing. MATERIALS AND

methodsPhytochemical screening revealed the presence of alkaloids, glycosides, tannins, and saponins in the extract. In vitro antimicrobial activity of the extract was determined by agar well diffusion method. In vivo antimicrobial activity of the extract was determined by microbial assay of excision wound in rats contaminated with Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus subtilis, Pseudomonas areuginosa, and Candida albicans and treated with 300 mg/kg body weight (bw) of 10 and 5% methanolic C. jagus bulb extract ointment (MCJBEO), respectively. Enzymatic antioxidant effect of the extract was determined in vivo by assaying superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase (CAT) activity, and malondialdehyde (MDA) level in excision wound biopsies of rats treated with 10 and 5% MCJBEO, respectively, following standard methods. Non-enzymatic antioxidant effect of the extract was determined in vitro using diphenylpicrylhydrazyl (DPPH) method following standard procedure.

resultsThe extract exhibited in vitro antimicrobial effect in a concentration-dependent manner with one hundred (100) mg/ml concentration of the extract having the highest inhibitory zone diameter for B. subtilis (25 mm), S. aureus (21 mm), and C. albicans (14 mm) followed by the 50, 25 and 12.5 mg/ml concentrations, respectively. B. subtilis, S. aureus, and C. albicans were not isolated from wounds of animals treated with both extract concentrations 10% and 5% MCJBEO, and reference drug (framycetin sulfate/clotrimazole). Activities of the enzymatic antioxidants SOD and CAT in wound biopsies treated with 10% MCJBEO were significantly (P < 0.05) higher when compared with those treated with 5% MCJBEO. Significantly (P < 0.05) decreased MDA level of wound biopsies from extract-treated rats was observed. The extract exhibited non-enzymatic antioxidant (DPPH) effect in a concentration-dependent manner.

conclusionThis study has shown that an anti-microbial and antioxidant effects could possibly be part of mechanism by which C. jagus bulb extract promote wound healing process.

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AntimicrobialantioxidantCrinum jagusin vivowound healing

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PMCPMC4579492

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