Table 1.
Biological Activities | Plant Part/Sample/Isolated Phytochemical Used |
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Antiamoebic | Isolated Protoberberine alkaloids [41] |
Antibacterial | Aqueous extract of stem bark [42,43] Isolated essential oils [29] Ethanol extract of root [26] Ethanol extracts of stem bark and stem and methanol fractions [44] Alkaloidal extracts of stem bark [45] Jartrorrhizine-1, canadine-1, argentine, jartrorrhizine and berberine (molecular docking analysis) [46] |
Antifungal | Isolated essential oils [29] Ethanol extract of root [26] Alkaloidal extracts of stem bark [45] Argentinine-1, columbamine-1, jartrorrhizine-1, pseudocolumbamine-1 (molecular docking analysis) [46] |
Anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties | Boiled water bark extract [47] Isolated essential oils [29] Methanol-dichloromethane bark extracts [48] Methanol, n-hexane, chloroform, ethyl acetate and aqueous fractions of stem bark extracts [25] |
Anti-leishmania | Aqueous extract stem bark [49] Isolated protoberberine alkaloids [50,51] |
Antimalarial | Aqueous and ethanol extract of stem bark [49,52] Leaf and bark decoctions [32] Boiled water bark extracts [53,54] Methanol extract of stem bark [55] Aqueous, hexane, ethanol and methanol (acetogenin-rich) fractions of stem bark and stem [30,31] Isolated protoberberine alkaloids [41,56] 1,3-dibenzoyl-2-azepanone and 3,5-bis(1,1- dimethylethyl)-phenol (molecular docking analysis) [57] |
Antipyretic properties | Aqueous extract of bark [58] Aqueous and ethanolic extracts of stem bark [24] |
Anti-trypanosoma | Ethanol extract of root [26] Aqueous extract of stem bark [49] Isolated protoberberine alkaloids [51,59] |
Gastroprotective | Ethanol extract of stem bark [60] Isolated Protoberberine alkaloids [61,62] |
Haematological | Ethanol extract of stem bark [35] |
Hepatoprotective | Hepasor (a protoberberine-containing extract) [63,64] Hexane, chloroform, ethyl acetate and methanol extracts of stem bark [65] |
Testiculoprotective | Aqueous extract of stem bark [66,67] |