Medicinal Chemistry

Ayo RG

Publications

• Research Article
  Isolation and Biological Activity of the Triterpene Β-Amyrin from the Aerial Plant Parts of Maesobotrya Barteri (Baill)
  Author(s): Ogwuche CE, Amupitan JO, Ndukwe IG and Ayo RGOgwuche CE, Amupitan JO, Ndukwe IG and Ayo RG
  
  Maesobotrya barteri (Baill), belonging to the family EUPHORBIACEAE, is a medicinal plant growing widely in tropical Africa. The Aerial plant parts of Maesobotrya barteri (Bail) were collected fresh from Orokam, Ogbadibo local Government of Benue State, Nigeria in July, 2013. Taxonomical identification was done by Mallam Musa Abdullahi at the Herbarium unit of Biological sciences Department, ABU, Zaria, Nigeria. Pulverized aerial parts of Maesobotrya barteri (960g) was exhaustively extracted successively using petroleum ether, chloroform, ethyl acetate and methanol and concentrated in the rotary evaporator at 40°C. The ethyl acetate fraction having the highest activity against test microbes from preliminary crude microbial screenings was subjected to phytochemical studies, antimicrobial analysis and column chromatography (CC). The .. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2161-0444.1000221

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