Abstract

IN VITRO ANTIOXIDANT EFFICACY OF TURBINARIA CONOIDES

J.Jayabarath* and K.Jeyaprakesh

Abstract

Phytochemicals are active components found in marine Sea weeds that act against many diseases. Sea weeds of genus Turbinaria has been widely used by the traditional healers to cure many disease. Turbinaria conoides was used for study the phytochemicals. The extraction of phytochemicals from Turbinaria conoides were carried out with different solvent such as Water, Ethanol, methanol. The preliminary screening of Turbinaria conoides shows the presence of Alkaloids, Flavonoids, Carbohydrates, Phenolic Compounds, Proteins and Amino acids.It was found that Methanol shows better results than the other. The in vitro antioxident activity of Turbinaria conoides was measured by Total antioxidant activity method, DPPH radicals scavenging assay activity, superoxide anion scavenging activity, ion chelating activity and reducing power assay. The results revealed that the crude extract of the Turbinaria conoides has a wide range of antioxidant activity and it’s suggested that it is useful in the treatment of infections caused by many microorganisms.

Keywords: Phytochemicals, Antioxident, Turbinaria conoides.