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Title: Antioxidant effect of Lagerstroemia speciosa Pers (Banaba) leaf extract in streptozotocin-induced diabetic mice
Authors: Saumya, S M
Basha, P Mahaboob
Keywords: Diabetes;Free radicals;Lagerstroemia;Oxidative stress
Issue Date: Feb-2011
Publisher: NISCAIR-CSIR, India
Abstract: Aqueous leaf extract of L. speciosa (banaba) effectively decreased the blood glucose in streptozotocin-induced diabetic mice after 15th day of banaba exposure. Further, banaba leaf extract have the potential to inhibit lipid peroxidation and effectively intercept/neutralize reactive oxygen species such as super oxide, H2O2 and NO based free radicals. The aqueous banaba leaf extract (150 mg/kg bodyweight) duly reduced STZ generated reactive intermediates and radical species helping to regulate normal levels of antioxidative markers like superoxide dismutase, catalase, glutathione- S-transferase and reduced glutathione.
Page(s): 125-131
ISSN: 0975-1009 (Online); 0019-5189 (Print)
Appears in Collections:IJEB Vol.49(02) [February 2011]

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