Table 3.
Brine shrimp (Artemiasalina) lethality bioassay of different partitions of Euphorbia Aellenii
| Sample a |
Dose
(μg/mL) |
Number of
shrimps |
Number of
survivors |
LD
50
(μg/mL) |
Standard drug |
LD
50
(μg/mL) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| E2b | 1000 | 30 | 10 | 177.06 | Etoposide | 7.4625 |
| 100 | 30 | 18 | ||||
| 10 | 30 | 21 | ||||
| E3 | 1000 | 30 | 19 | 770.66 | Etoposide | 7.4625 |
| 100 | 30 | 23 | ||||
| 10 | 30 | 26 | ||||
| E4 | 1000 | 30 | 26 | 5346200 | Etoposide | 7.4625 |
| 100 | 30 | 27 | ||||
| 10 | 30 | 28 | ||||
| E5 | 1000 | 30 | 24 | 377166.8 | Etoposide | 7.4625 |
| 100 | 30 | 26 | ||||
| 10 | 30 | 28 | ||||
aChloroform (E2), ethyl acetate (E3), n-butanolic (E4) and aqueous (E5) fractions.
bG (Probability value) = 0.48; No. of replicates: 3; Upper limit (upper toxic concentration) = 1878.68 μg/mL and lower limit (lower toxic concentration) = 42.38 μg/mL; incubation condition = 28 ± 1°C