Asian Journal of Research in Chemistry
  • Year: 2011
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue: 6

Free Radical Scavenging Activity of Gamma Irradiated and Unirradiated Citrus medica Empty Juice Sacs

  • Author:
  • Sonali Munne1,, D.V. Parwate1, V.N. Ingle1, D.S. Panchbhai1, V.S. Nagpurkar2
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 960 to 962

1Department of Chemistry, Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur, 440 033, India

2Suryodaya College of Engineering and Technology, Nagpur, 441 204, Maharashtra, India

*Corresponding Author E-mail: sonalimunne07@rediffmail.com

Online published on 6 March, 2013.

Abstract

Antioxidant activity of methanol extract of gamma irradiated and unirradiated Citrus medica fruit bio-mass was investigated for its free radical scavenging activity. Antioxidant activity of methanol extract was evaluated by DPPH and nitric oxide radical scavenging method. In DPPH method 100 μg/ml of MEUCM and MERCM exhibited 58.14% and 55.95% inhibition and in Nitric oxide method 100 μg/ml concentration of MEUCM and MERCM shows 58.28%, 50.32% inhibition respectively.

Keywords

Citrus medica, Antioxidant, radical scavenger, DPPH, gamma radiation