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Antifungal and Cytotoxic Activities of Nannorrhops Ritchiana Roots Extract Acta Poloniae Pharmaceutica ñ Drug Research, Vol. 71 No. 5 pp. 789ñ793, 2014 ISSN 0001-6837 Polish Pharmaceutical Society ANTIFUNGAL AND CYTOTOXIC ACTIVITIES OF NANNORRHOPS RITCHIANA ROOTS EXTRACT REHANA RASHID1*, FARAH MUKHTAR2 and ABIDA KHAN1 1Department of Chemistry, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, University Road, Abbottabad, 22060, KPK, Pakistan 2H.E.J. International Center for Chemical & Biological Sciences, University of Karachi, 27750-Karachi, Pakistan Abstract: This study was designed to evaluate the antifungal and cytotoxic activities of the Nannorrhops ritchi- ana (Mazari Palm) 80% methanol extract (NR-M) and its four crude extracts i.e., petroleum ether (NR-A), dichloromethane (NR-B), ethyl acetate (NR-C) and butanol (NR-D). The antifungal activity was determined by agar tube dilution method against nine fungal strains; Aspergillus flavus, Trichophyton longifusis, Trichophyton mentagrophytes, Aspergillus flavus and Microsporum canis were susceptible to the extracts with percentage inhibition of (70ñ80%). Extracts exhibited significant and good antifungal activity against various fungal strains. The results were deduced by comparing with those for miconazole, amphotericin B and ketoconazole as standard drugs. The fractions of methanolic extract were assayed for their brine shrimp cytotoxic activity. They exhibited low toxicity with LC50 values ranging from 285.7 to 4350.75 µg/mL at the concentration of obtained results warrant follow up through bioassay guided isolation of the active principles, future antiinfec- tious research. Keywords: Nannorrhops ritchiana, antifungal activity, brine shrimp, cytotoxic activity Natural products obtained from various being treated with the herbal medicines by the tradi- sources like, plants, animals, and microorganisms tional practitioners and over 350 herbal drugs have are considered to be strong candidates of pharma- been reported. Pakistan flora is rich in variety of rare ceutical drugs since long period of time and they plants and offers a great chance to discover a lead constitute a vast majority of chemotherapeutic molecule, that is a step forward towards the pharma- agents currently in use for various types of infec- ceutical drugs (3). tious diseases provoked by pathogenic bacteria and The compounds resulting from natural prod- fungi, cardiovascular diseases, cancers and many ucts are the most important biochemical tools that others. The interest in using medicinal plantís demonstrate the specific mode of action in various extracts and their isolated components has increased fungal pathogenic diseases, but there is still a great not only in developing countries but also getting urgency of developing new antifungal agents that more popularity in developed countries. According are more efficient, less toxic, having minimum side to World Health Organization, medicinal plants effects (4). Fungal pathogens exist in various forms would be the best source for variety of drugs (1) and some of them cause severe infections of skin, having less toxicity and being more economical. hairs, nails, lungs, ears and joints in humans and Therefore, medicinally important plants should be animals (5) whereas others cause severe infections investigated for better understanding of the chem- of central nervous system (CNS) in humans. At istry and chemical composition of their bioactive present, about 300 metabolites have been reported to constituents, their efficacy and safety (2). be toxic to man and animals (6) and the main toxic Pakistan occupies a unique position among effects are carcinogenicity, genotoxicity, terato- developing countries due to widespread medicinal genicity, hepatotoxicity and immune suppression (7, plants on account of its topology. It is noticeable that 8). The human fungal diseases also include asper- more than 50% of the population in Pakistan is still gillosis, actinomycosis, histoplasmosis and corcid- * Corresponding author: E- mail: [email protected]; phone: 0992-383591-6 Ext. 310; fax: 0992-383441. 789 790 REHANA RASHID et al. iomycosis. The discovery of antifungal drugs is the get crude extract (NR-M) 1.5 kg. Methanol crude need of this era due to their versatility and the sec- extract was dissolved in cold distilled H2O (10 L) ond most important factor is that they showed an and partitioned with petroleum ether (25 L) to afford enhanced degree of resistance to the existing anti- after concentration the fraction NR-A. The aqueous fungal drugs. layer was then extracted with CH2Cl2 (10 L) to Nannorrhops ritchiana (Arecaceae) is the sole obtain fraction NR-B, ethyl acetate (10 L) ñ fraction species of this genus (9). It is native to Southwestern NR-C and butanol (10 L) ñ fraction NR-D, respec- Asia, from Southeast of the Arabian Peninsula to tively. The fractionated extracts were tested for the east through Iran and Afghanistan to Pakistan. It is antifungal activity and based on that planned for fur- widely distributed in the various areas of ther phytochemistry studies. Balochistan province of Pakistan particularly in Harnai, Khuzdar and Barkhan at an altitude of 1600 Antifungal assay in vitro m. It is one of the most versatile palms that can sur- Test organisms vive both in normal and under drastic weather con- Clinical isolates of human pathogens ditions (10). The young leaves of plant with sweet Microsporum canis, Candida albicans, Candida astringent taste have been used as a purgative in glaberata and Aspergillus flavus; animal pathogens, livestock (11). The fruit is edible (12) and used by Tricheophyton mentagrophytes, Fusarium monilifu- local communities for the treatment of diarrhea and mus and plant pathogens Trichophyton longifusis, dysentery (13). In Balochistan (14) it is used against Fusarium solani lycopersici and Fusarium oxyspo- various infectious diseases like gastrointestinal dis- rum lycopersici solanivar were used in this study. order (15). The constituents of plant ash have been quantitatively estimated in relation to biogeochem- Agar tube dilution method istry of the plant, the presence of minerals like cal- Agar tube dilution method (17) was used for the cium, magnesium, iron and nickel in soil and plant evaluation of antifungal activity. Sabouraud dextrose ash opened new avenue for the researchers (16). agar (SDA) was used for the growth of fungus and Therefore, research work is initiated on the roots of stock solution was prepared by dissolving 24 mg of N. ritchiana to investigate antifungal and cytotoxic each extract in 1 mL of sterile DMSO. Acidic medi- activities of various crude extracts. um (pH 5.5ñ5.6), containing high concentration of In search of effective nontoxic oral drugs and glucose or maltose prepared by mixing 32.5 g/500 topical applications, there is dare need of natural mL of distilled water was put in the screw caped sources to be explored and exploited for relief. tubes and autoclaved at 121OC for 15 min. Tubes were then allowed to cool to 50OC and non-solidified SDA was loaded with 66.6 µL of extract, pipetted EXPERIMENTAL from the stock solution and allowed to solidify at room temperature. Then, tubes were inoculated with General 4 mm piece of inoculums and incubated at 27ñ29OC All reagents and solvents used were obtained for 7ñ10 days and relative humidity of incubation from Sigma Aldrich (Shalimar Chemicals supplier, room was maintained at 40ñ50%. After this period, Pakistan). Commercial methanol used for extraction percentage growth inhibition was calculated with was purchased locally. reference to the negative control by the formula: % inhibition = linear growth in test (mm)/ Plant material linear growth in control (mm) ◊ 100 The Nannorrhops ritchiana species was col- Miconazole and amphotericin B were used as lected from Barkhan and Harnai areas in standard drugs, while miconazole, amphotericin B Balochistan, Pakistan. A voucher specimen No. and DMSO were used as positive and negative con- UoB/230 has been deposited in the Herbarium of the trols (18ñ22). Department of Botany, University of Balochistan, Quetta, Pakistan. Brine shrimp lethality assay The brine shrimp lethality test (BST) was per- Preparation of extracts formed to predict the cytotoxic activity in the differ- The air-dried roots (15 kg) of Nannorrhops ent crude extracts of N. ritchiana. The eggs were ritchiana were extracted with 80% aq. MeOH at hatched in artificial sea water as per conventional room temperature for three times. The combined method (23). Shrimp were transferred by pipette to MeOH extracts were evaporated under vacuum to each tube and sea water was added to make total Antifungal and cytotoxic activities of Nannorrhops ritchiana roots extract 791 volume of 5 mL. The test tubes were kept under illu- antifungal activity against Microsporum canis 80%, mination so that the nauplii can easily be counted Trichophyton longifusis 67%, good activity against macroscopically in capillary. The survivors were Tricheophyton mentagrophytes 70%; extract NR-B counted with the help of magnifying glass (◊3), the showed good activity against Trichophyton longifu- brine shrimp (LC50) was determined. sis 70% but moderate activity against Microsporum canis 60%, while extracts NR-C and NR-D exhibit- RESULTS AND DISCUSSION ed medium activity against Trichophyton longifusis 60% and good against Aspergillus flavus 70%, During this study, different fractions obtained respectively. from 80% methanol extract (NR-M) of roots of The brine shrimp lethality assay results pre- Nannorrhops ritchiana plant, petroleum ether (NR- sented in Table 2, show
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