Plant Tissue Cult. & Biotech. 30(2): 179-187, 2020 (December)
Antioxidant and Antibacterial Activities of Four Local Medicinal Plants
Barna Goswami, Shamoly Akter1, Nemai Chandra Nandi2, Tanjina Akthar Banu, Shahina Akter, Sadia Afrin3, Ahashan Habib and Salim Khan
Plant Tissue Culture Section, Biological Research Division, Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Dhanmondi, Dhaka-1205, Bangladesh
Key words: Antioxidant activity, Medicinal plants, DPPH, Antibacetrial activity
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Potential antioxidant and antibacterial activity of methanolic, chloroformic and n-hexane leaf extracts of four local important medicinal plants like Ocimum americanum, O. basilicum, O. gratissimum and Centella asiatica was investigated. The methanolic leaf extracts of these plant species exhibited the potent DPPH free radical scavenging activity (IC50 value, 2.67
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