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The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

2020

Acute oral toxicity study

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Acute Oral Toxicity Study Of Ethanol Extract Of Oroxylum Indicum Leaf In Mice, Mohd Farhan Hanif Reduan, Fathin Faahimaah Abdul Hamid, Muhammad Luqman Nordin, Rumaizi Shaari, Ruhil Hayati Hamdan, Eric Lim Teik Chung, Tan Li Peng, Intan Noor Aina Kamaruzaman, Noramalina Noralidin Dec 2020

Acute Oral Toxicity Study Of Ethanol Extract Of Oroxylum Indicum Leaf In Mice, Mohd Farhan Hanif Reduan, Fathin Faahimaah Abdul Hamid, Muhammad Luqman Nordin, Rumaizi Shaari, Ruhil Hayati Hamdan, Eric Lim Teik Chung, Tan Li Peng, Intan Noor Aina Kamaruzaman, Noramalina Noralidin

The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

The Oroxylum indicumplant is aherbal plant commonly eaten by the locals in Malaysia while the application of herbal remedies from the plant has been inherited and passed down through generations. However, there is a lack of toxicity profiling of the plant, hence this research aimed toinvestigate acute oral toxicity ofethanol extract of O. indicumin C57BL/6 male mice at different concentrations, to determine the LD50of the plant extract. A total of twenty-five mice were randomly assigned into five experimental groups comprising the control (normal saline), vehicle (5% DMSO), low dose (1000 mg/kg bw), medium dose (2000 mg/kg bw) and high dose …