Claim · model-written summary
The water extract had higher larvicidal activity than other extracts, with LD50 of 11.77 μg/mL.
- Taxon
- Culex quinquefasciatus
Culex quinquefasciatuse2 - Treatment
- water extracte0
- Outcome
- larvicidale0
- Direction
- highere0
- Value
- 11.77 μg/mLe0
- Comparator
- other extractse1
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Verbatim
e0“The water extract exhibited higher larvicidal (LD50 = 11.77 μg/mL)”
e1“compared with the other extracts”
e2“larvicidal properties were evaluated against the urban mosquito Culex quinquefasciatus”
Title
Abdullah Alaklabi; Ibrahim A. Arif; Anis Ahamed; et al. Tropical Journal of Pharmaceutical Research 2016. doi:10.4314/tjpr.v15i11.12
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Observation Root-extract total flavonoid content ranged from 18.5 to 83.4 mg/g.
- Observation Free phenolic compound amounts ranged from 14.7 to 91.9 mg/g of extract powder.
- Observation The water extract exhibited significant antioxidant activity and significant phenolic and flavonoid levels.
- Intervention effect The water extract had higher nematicidal activity than other extracts, with LD50 of 11.78 μg/mL.
- Intervention effect The water extract had higher antifeedant activity than other extracts, with LD50 above 40 μg/mL.
- Intervention effect The water extract had higher antifungal activity against M. audouinii than other extracts, with minimum inhibitory concentration 16 μg/mL.
- Recommendation The authors suggest Mentha spicata water extract as a potential natural source of nutritional and pharmaceutical ingredients.