Abstract:

The aim of this study was to evaluate the antioxidant, antimicrobial and anticarsinogenic activities of methanol extract obtained from flowers, fruits and leaves of Sambucus ebulus L. Free radical scavenging activities and total phenolic contents of the species were assayed by DPPH method and Folin–Ciocalteu method, respectively. The antimicrobial activity of the extracts were tested by the micro-broth dilution method against seven microbial species. L929 (ATCC, CCL-1) mouce fibroblast cell line was used for the determiation of in vitro citotoxicity activity and HeLa (ATCC, CCl-2) human cervics adenocarcinoma cell line was used for the determination of anticarcinogenic and growth inhibition activity. Leaves of Sambucus ebulus L showed the strongest antioxidant activity and also leaves of plant has highest phenolic content, Sambucus ebulus L. exracts were found to have no significant activity against any strains of bacteria. Only Sambucus ebulus fruit extract has shown moderate effect against Candida albicans. In 10μg/mL concentration the highest anticarcinogenic activity were found in leaves extract, in addition that none of the extracts were not found cytotoxic.

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