Table 5.

Pro-oxidant activity of different fractions of Coccinia grandis

Fractions	Absorbance at 532 nm
	25 µg/ml	50 µg/ml	100 µg/ml	200 µg/ml	400 µg/ml
Pet-ether	0.153±0.003	0.096±0.001	0.064±0.002	0.044±0.002	0.018±0.001a
Chloroform	0.143±0.002	0.083±0.002	0.067±0.002	0.045±0.002	0.035±0.002 b
Ethyl acetate	0.064±0.002	0.045±0.001	0.034±0.002	0.021±0.001	0.017±0.001a, c
Residual	0.084±0.001	0.064±0.002	0.041±0.001	0.032±0.001	0.027±0.001 b, c
Ascorbic acid	0.904±0.002	0.780±0.002	0.511±0.004	0.277±0.005	0.121±0.003 d

Values are expressed as mean± SEM of three parallel measurements. Values within a column followed by different letters are significantly different (P<0.05).