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bjp-22805	Shahid, Sammia; Riaz, Tauheeda; Asghar, Muhammad Nadeem	Screening of Ranunculus sceleratus for enzyme inhibition, antibacterial and antioxidant activities	2015	8	.pdf	application/pdf	5336	254	52	The FRAP values of the studied fractions were calculated and it was found that among all the fractions the ethyl acetate soluble fraction 440 Bangladesh J Pharmacol 2015; 10: 436-442 Table II Percentage inhibition of various fractions of R. sceleratus against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria Samples %Inhibition S. typhi (+) E. coli (-) P. aeroginosa (-) B. subtilis (+) S. aerus (+) n-Hexane fraction 25.6 ± 0.5 27.3 ± 0.0 34.3 ± 1.1 35.8 ± 0.9 26.8 ± 0.3 Chloroform soluble fraction 60.4 ± 0.6 62.7 ± 0.8 70.6 ± 1.4 62.7 ± 3.8 58.2 ± 1.2 Ethyl acetate soluble fraction 72.3 ± 2.3 62.8 ± 2.4 71.6 ± 0.5 53.9 ± 2.6 64.2 ± 0.0 n-Butanol soluble fraction 61.7 ± 0.8 64.3 ± 0.6 74.4 ± 2.1 54.2 ± 2.6 63.8 ± 2.6 Remaining aqueous fraction 61.4 ± 0.9 67.9 ± 0.3 71.7 ± 0.6 59.4 ± 0.1 64.0 ± 1.4 Ciprofloxacina 90.5 ± 1.2 90.1 ± 0.4 92.3 ± 1.9 91.3 ± 2.0 93.1 ± 2.6 All results are presented as mean ± standard mean error of three assays; aStandard reference drug Table III MIC50 activities of various fractions of Ranunculus sceleratus against Gram-positive and Gram-negative Samples MIC 50 S. typhi (+) E. coli (-) P. aeroginosa (-) B. subtilis (+) S. aerus (+) n-Hexane fraction - - - - - Chloroform soluble fraction 10.4 ± 0.4 11.6 ± 0.3 7.1 ± 0.5 15.5 ± 0.7 12.0 ± 0.8 Ethyl acetate soluble fraction 10.8 ± 0.3 10.7 ± 0.2 7.8 ± 0.8 9.1 ± 0.1 10.8 ± 0.3 n-Butanol soluble fraction 10.4 ± 0.4 10.9 ± 0.6 5.6 ± 0.3 12.1 ± 0.4 11.2 ± 0.2 Remaining aqueous fraction 11.3 ± 0.3 10.7 ± 0.5 5.3 ± 0.4 9.1 ± 0.6 ± 10.5 ± 0.8 Ciprofloxacina 8.1 ± 0.2 8.2 ± 0.1 10.0 ± 0.1 9.0 ± 0.0 8.1 ± 0.2 Table IV IC50, total anti-oxidant activity, FRAP values, total phenolics and lipid peroxidation of Ranunculus sceleratus Sample IC50 µg/mL Chloroform soluble fraction 47.0 ± 1.0 0.8 ± 0.0 158.0 ± 1.1 73.3 ± 1.0 21.6 ± 0.9 Ethyl acetate soluble fraction 85.0 ± 0.6 1.0 ± 0.0 238.5 ± 1.1 97.1 ± 1.0 53.7 ± 1.6 n-Butanol soluble fraction 44.1 ± 0.8 1.0 ± 0.0 148.0 ± 0.9 79.6 ± 1.0 48.0 ± 1.5 Remaining aqueous fraction 81.5 ± 1.3 0.6 ± 0.0 46.0 ± 1.3 64.6 ± 0.5 18.2 ± 0.5 Ascorbic acida 58.9 ± 1.8 - - - - BHTa - 0.8 ± 1.2 - - 62.5 ± 1.1 Blank - - 20.4 16.5 - All results are presented as mean ± standard mean error of three assays.	cache/bjp-22805.pdf	txt/bjp-22805.txt