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. 2022 Jan 24;13:786712. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2022.786712

TABLE 3.

In vitro effects of S. jambos extracts.

Extract Activity Used method Country Effects Reference
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.