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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Open Science Publishers LLP</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">121</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>SCREENING OF PLANT MACARANGA PELTATA FOR IN VITRO ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Verma</surname><given-names>Meenakshi</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Kamath</surname><given-names>Nisha</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Kumar</surname><given-names>Nitesh</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>J</surname><given-names>Venkata rao</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>A.</surname><given-names>Dhanaraj S.</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>P</surname><given-names>Vasanth Raj</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>30</day><month>09</month><year>2012</year></pub-date><volume/><issue/><fpage>31</fpage><lpage>39</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Macaranga Peltata belonging to Euphorbiaceae family is widely distributed in south east Asia. The plant parts leaves and stem bark were separated, shade dried and extracted separately using methanol. The concentrated methanolic extracts of Macaranga Peltata were subjected to phytochemical analysis and antioxidant evaluation by four different methods. The percentage yield of the leaves and stem bark were found to be 47% and 30% respectively. The antioxidant activity of the plant was carried out using four methods viz., DPPH free radical scavenging activity, Nitric Oxide radical inhibition Assay, Scavenging of Superoxide radical by Alkaline DMSO method and ABTS free radical scavenging activity. Stem Bark extract showed IC50 value of 10.13, 9.77 by DPPH and ABTS methods respectively. Leaf extract showed IC50 value of 14.85 for DPPH Assay and 7.61 for ABTS method. But both Stem Bark and Leaf extract showed very good activity for NBT Assay and nitric oxide radical inhibition activity and their IC50 values were very close to the Standard anti-oxidants ascorbic acid and Rutin.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Macaranga peltata</kwd><kwd> Euphorbiaceae</kwd><kwd> anti-oxidants and extraction.</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
