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Cestocidal activity of Acacia auriculiformis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2009

N.K. Ghosh ,
S.P. Sinha Babu ,
N.C. Sukul  and
A. Ito
N.K. Ghosh
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan-731235, West Bengal, India
S.P. Sinha Babu
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan-731235, West Bengal, India
N.C. Sukul
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan-731235, West Bengal, India
A. Ito
Affiliation:
Department of Parasitology, Gifu University School of Medicine, Gifu City 500, Japan
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Abstract

The cestocidal activity of Acacia auriculiformis was evaluated using rats each harbouring a single adult worm of Hymenolepis diminuta. The ethanol extract (300 mg/kg/day) and the saponins (200 mg/kg/day) obtained from the funicles of A. auriculiformis, were administered orally to two groups each of 10 rats, respectively, on day 20 after oral inoculation with a single cysticercoid of H. diminuta. Adult worms were expelled within 5 days from rats treated with the ethanol extract and within 3 days from those treated with saponins. No appreciable side effects were observed in the treated rats.

Type
Research Note
Information
Journal of Helminthology , Volume 70 , Issue 2 , June 1996 , pp. 171 - 172
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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