International Journal of Pharma and Bio Sciences
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10.22376/ijpbs.2019.10.1.p1-12
Volume 10 Issue 2
2019 (April-June)
The ameliorative effects of selected herbal extracts on glucose levels in albino mice induced with Mancozeb
Pesticides were used to increase food production to meet the global requirement; however it causes adverse effects in humans and animals. One of the mostly used pesticides is Dithiocarbamate, a broad spectrum fungicide. Mancozeb is a fungicide of Ethylene Bis-Dithiocarbamate (EBDCs) group. It is a widely used fungicide due to its reportedly low toxicity against diseases in field crops and is the most commonly used in Madhya Pradesh, India. However its breakdown product ethylene thiourea has toxic effect in number of experimental animals. The objective of the current study was to investigate the therapeutic effect of crude extracts of lessThan i greaterThan Aloe vera lessThan /i greaterThan and lessThan i greaterThan Ocimum sanctum lessThan /i greaterThan against mancozeb in Swiss albino mice. Two doses of mancozeb at 4.2 mg/kg/day and 6.7 mg/kg/day dissolved in distilled water were administered in albino mice for four weeks. The aqueous leaf extracts of lessThan i greaterThan Ocimum sanctum lessThan /i greaterThan at 250 mg/kg/bw and lessThan i greaterThan Aloe vera lessThan /i greaterThan at 400 mg/kg/bw was evaluated in these mancozeb intoxicated groups. In the mancozeb exposed group, significant decrease in blood glucose level was seen compared to control, while in the herbal treated groups the results showed significant increase in glucose level towards that of control. The healing and repair of the liver tissue with both the aqueous leaf extracts of lessThan i greaterThan A. vera lessThan /i greaterThan and lessThan i greaterThan O. sanctum lessThan /i greaterThan probably helped in the acceleration of glucose generation mechanism which may have contributed to the increase of glucose level in the treated mice. Thus, the current study indicates that mancozeb administered at very low doses produced significant detrimental effects on Swiss albino mice and the aqueous extracts of lessThan i greaterThan Aloe vera lessThan /i greaterThan and lessThan i greaterThan Ocimum sanctum lessThan /i greaterThan has therapeutic effect against it on the blood glucose level in albino mice.
S. RAZIA
Mancozeb, albino mice, glucose, Aloe vera, Ocimum sanctum
103-107