antimicrobial, antioxidant and cytotoxic activities and phytochemical screening of some yemeni medicinal plants抗菌、抗氧化和细胞毒性活动和植物化学的一些也门药用植物的筛选.pdfVIP

Advance Access Publication 28 January 2008 eCAM 2010;7(3)323–330 doi:10.1093/ecam/nen004 Original Article Antimicrobial, Antioxidant and Cytotoxic Activities and Phytochemical Screening of Some Yemeni Medicinal Plants 1 2 2 2 Ramzi A. A. Mothana , Salah A. A. Abdo , Sidgi Hasson , Faisal M. N. Althawab , Sama A. Z. Alaghbari2 and Ulrike Lindequist3 1Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Sana’a-University, PO Box 33039, 2Institute of Pharmacy, College of Medical science, University of Science and Technology, Sana’a, Yemen and 3Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, Institute of Pharmacy, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University, Greifswald, F-L-Jahn Str. 15a, D-17487 Greifswald, Germany The traditional medicine still plays an important role in the primary health care in Yemen. The current study represents the investigation of 16 selected plants, which were collected from different localities of Yemen. The plants were dried and extracted with two different solvents (methanol and hot water) to yield 34 crude extracts. The obtained extracts were tested for their antimicrobial activity against three Gram-positive bacteria, two Gram-negative bacteria, one yeast species and three multiresistant Staphylococcus strains using agar diffusion method, for their antioxidant activity using scavenging activity of DPPH