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Evaluation of the acute hepatotoxicity of Medemia argun seed's extract by determining of LD50 value and dose response curve.

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Biology and pharmaceutical sciences.

Abstract

Determination of median lethal dose (LD50) is one way to measure the potential short-term toxicity (acute toxicity) of a substance to a biological system that sufficient to kill 50 percent of a population of tested animals. Acute toxicology studies in vivo are essential to drug development experiments that estimate the LD50 in rodents. Toxicity tests are usually performed by pharmaceutical manufactures in the investigation of a new drug. Medemia argun fruits have been found in the tombs of ancient Egypt including celebrated tomb of Tut Ankh Ammon. Nowadays, little detailed phytochemical and pharmaceutical studies have been reported for Medemia argun. Scientists exhibited by in vitro experiments that the proanthocyanidin fraction from Medemia argun nuts can be useful as a protecting factor against oxidative/nitrative stress associated with different diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases. In this study, we determined the LD50 of the Medemia argun seed's crude ethanolic extract in vivo using the experimental mice' model to open the field for further scientific researches. Several doses of Medemia argun ethanolic extract was used in LD50 experiment that carried out on male albino mice administered intraperitoneally for 14 days. The results showed that the LD50 of the ethanolic Medemia argun crud extract was (200 mg/kg) where half of the tested animals in such group were dead, our data substantiate an evidence that Medemia argun seed's extract could be safe up to (150 mg/kg) that there was no mortality was reported and may be effective at dose (100 mg/ kg).

DOI

10.21608/ajbas.2020.20713.1005

Keywords

Acute toxicity, ethanolic extract, Medemia argun, Median lethal dose, Mice

Authors

First Name

Sara

Last Name

Abd Allah Eisa

MiddleName

Gamal

Affiliation

biotechnology department, faculty of science, port said university, port said, Egypt.

Email

saragamal2421@yahoo.com

City

Portsaid

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First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Hassan

MiddleName

Kamel

Affiliation

Faculty of Science, Port Said University, Appointed visiting professor at the Center for Genomics, Zewail City for Science and Technology

Email

mohamedkamel24@yahoo.com

City

Port Said

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First Name

Nabil

Last Name

Abd el hamid

MiddleName

Mohie

Affiliation

professor of biochemistry, faculty of pharmacy, kafr-elsheikh university

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nabilmohie@yahoo.com

City

kafr- elsheikh

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First Name

amal

Last Name

ahmed

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-

Affiliation

professor of histology , faculty of veterinary, Suez canal university

Email

amal_ahmed122@yahoo.com

City

ismaillia

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-

Volume

1

Article Issue

2

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15213

Issue Date

2020-07-01

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2019-12-20

Publish Date

2020-07-01

Page Start

90

Page End

98

Online ISSN

2682-275X

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947

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Publication Title

Alfarama Journal of Basic & Applied Sciences

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22 Jan 2023