TABLE 3.
Extract | Activity | Used method | Country | Effects | Reference |
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Whole plant | |||||
ethanol extract | Antioxidant | DPPH and NO scavenging assay | South Africa | DPPH (IC50 = 14.10 µg/ml) NO scavenging assay (Low activity) | Twilley et al. (2017) |
Anti-inflammatory | COX-2 | IC50 of 3.79 µg/ml | |||
Cytotoxic | A375, A431, HeLa and HEK-293 cell lines | IC50 ranged between 56 and 198 µg/ml | |||
Antiviral | Anti-herpes simplex virus type-1 assay | The extract exhibited potential anti-viral activity at 50.00 μg/ml | |||
100% viral inhibition when tested at the highest viral dose | |||||
Leaves | |||||
Hydroethanol | Antioxidant | DPPH | Brazil | EC50 = 5.68 µg/ml | Donatini et al. (2009) |
MDA | IC50 = 0.17 µg/ml | ||||
Methanolic extract | Anti-inflammatory | Hyaluronidase inhibition assay | India | 60.80% inhibition at 1 µg/ml | Reddy et al. (2014) |
Antioxidant | DPPH assay | IC50 = 41 ± 1.8 µg/ml | |||
Nitric oxide assay | IC50 = 63 ± 1.6 µg/ml | ||||
lipid peroxidation | IC50 = 48 ± 20 µg/ml | ||||
Ethanolic extract | Antioxidant | ABTS | Bangladesh | IC50 = 57.80 µg/ml | Hossain et al. (2016) |
Methanolic extract | Antioxidant | DPPH | Egypt | IC50 = 5.7 ± 0.45 µg/ml | Sobeh et al. (2018) |
FRAP | IC50 = 19.77 ± 0.79 mM | ||||
Ethanolic extract | Anticancer | XXT | South Africa | IC50 < 60 µg/ml against the HeLa and A431 cell line | Twilley et al. (2017) |
Antiviral | Cytopathic effect (CPE) inhibition assay | Potential antiviral activity with 100% viral inhibition for both (10 and 100 TCID50) viral doses against HSV-1 | |||
Antioxidant | DPPH | IC50 = 1.17 ± 0.30 μg/ml | |||
Methanolic, hexane and dichloromethane extract | Antiviral | Plaque Reduction Assay | Thailand | At 100 µg/ml, extracts of hexane and dichloromethane exhibited HSV-1/HSV-2 inhibitory activity greater than 50% inhibition | Athikomkulchai et al. (2008) |
70% aqueous acetone extract | Cytotoxicity | MTT assay | Taiwan | IC50 = 10.2 µg/ml strongest cytotoxic effect on human promyelocytic leukemia cells (HL-60) | Yang et al. (2000) |
Methanol extract | Cytotoxicity | SRB assay | Egypt | At 100 µg/ml, the extract exhibited an increase of MCF-7 cell proliferation | Rocchetti et al. (2019) |
85% MeOH | Antioxidant | Phosphomolybdenum assay | Egypt | 538.20 mg AAE/g extract | Ghareeb et al. (2016) |
Deffated 85% MeOH | 619.51 mg AAE/g extract | ||||
Petroleum ether | 147.96 mg AAE/g extract | ||||
Dichloromethane | 222.76 mg AAE/g extract | ||||
Ethyl acetate | 460.15 mg AAE/g extract | ||||
n-Butanol | 643.90 mg AAE/g extract | ||||
Aqueous | 315.44 mg AAE/g extract | ||||
Ethanolic extract | Antioxidant | DPPH | Bangladesh | IC50 = 14.10 μg/ml | Islam et al. (2012) |
Methanolic and ZnO-NPs extract | Antiurolithiatic | Single diffusion gel growth technique | India | PI = 19.63–30.56% of inhibition at 2% of extract | Deka et al. (2021) |
PI = 16.28–24.68% of inhibition at 0.5% of extract for ZnO-NPs extract, PI = 25.60 at 0.5 and 35.27% at 5% | |||||
Methanolic extract | Antioxidant | DPPH | Egypt | IC50 = 48.13 µg/ml | Khalaf et al. (2021) |
Ethanolic extract | Antioxidant | DPPH | India | IC50 = 38.73 µg/ml | Rajkumari et al. (2018b) |
Aqueous ethanolic extract | Antioxidant | DPPH | Egypt | EC50 = 13.52 ± 0.69 µg/ml | Nawwar et al. (2016) |
ORAC assay | EC50 = 34.35 ± 12.45 µg/ml | ||||
Cytotoxicity | Neutral red uptake assay | HaCaT (IC50 = 106.74 ± 10.89 µg/ml) | |||
Bladder carcinoma cells (IC50 = 55.24 ± 2.67 µg/ml) | |||||
Fruit | |||||
Methanolic extract | Antioxidant | DPPH | United States | IC50 = 92.0 ± 8.24 µg/ml | Reynertson et al. (2008) |
Hydroalchohlic extract | Antioxidant | DPPH | Pahang | IC50 = 24.44 µg/ml | Yunus et al. (2021) |
Ethanolic extract | Antioxidant | DPPH | Malaysia | Lowest activity, IC50 = 24.44 μg/ml | |
Antidiabetic | α-Glucosidase inhibition assay | Low inhibition activity, IC50 = 0.67 ± 0.04 | |||
n-Hexane, DCM and MeOH | Cytotoxicity | HeLa and Vero cell lines | Bangladesh | Not active | Nesa et al. (2021) |
Seed | |||||
Methanolic extract | Antioxidant | DPPH and ORAC | Brazil | 112.06 and 489.62 µmol/g Trolox equivalent, respectively | Vagula et al. (2019) |
Ethanolic extract | Antioxidant | ABTS | China | IC50 = 45.79 ± 1.02 µg/ml | Zheng et al. (2011) |
Hydroxyl radical activity | IC50 = 65.22 ± 0.93 µg/ml | ||||
DPPH | IC50 = 95.21 ± 1.78 µg/ml | ||||
Flowers | |||||
85% MeOH | Antioxidant | Phosphomolybdenum assay | Egypt | 560.97 mg AAE/g extract | Ghareeb et al. (2016) |
AAE: ascorbic acid equivalent; PI: percentage inhibition of the struvite crystals.