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Evaluation of Safety of Stewart’s Wood Fern (Dryopteris stewartii) and Its Anti-Hyperglycemic Potential in Alloxan-Induced Diabetic Mice

Diabetes has become a critical challenge to the global health concerns. Cytotoxicity and development of resistance against available drugs for management of diabetes have shifted the focus of global scientific researchers from synthetic to herbal medications. Therefore, the current study was conduct...

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Autores principales: Hanif, Uzma, Raza, Chand, Liaqat, Iram, Rani, Maryam, Afifi, Sherif M., Esatbeyoglu, Tuba, Bahadur, Saraj, Shahid, Sara
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9604180/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36293291
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms232012432
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author Hanif, Uzma
Raza, Chand
Liaqat, Iram
Rani, Maryam
Afifi, Sherif M.
Esatbeyoglu, Tuba
Bahadur, Saraj
Shahid, Sara
author_facet Hanif, Uzma
Raza, Chand
Liaqat, Iram
Rani, Maryam
Afifi, Sherif M.
Esatbeyoglu, Tuba
Bahadur, Saraj
Shahid, Sara
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description Diabetes has become a critical challenge to the global health concerns. Cytotoxicity and development of resistance against available drugs for management of diabetes have shifted the focus of global scientific researchers from synthetic to herbal medications. Therefore, the current study was conducted to investigate the possible anti-hyperglycemic potential of Dryopteris stewartii using Swiss albino mice. To evaluate any possible toxic effect of the plant, acute oral toxicity test was performed while the anti-diabetic effects of aqueous and ethanol extracts at 500 mg/kg, positive, negative and normal control were assessed simultaneously. The anti-diabetic study revealed that aqueous extract has higher anti-diabetic potential than ethanol extract while lowered blood glucose level at second week reaching 150 mg/dL, exerting stronger anti-diabetic effects, compared to ethanol extract (190 mg/dL). Oral glucose tolerance findings revealed that aqueous extract decreased blood glucose level by −0.41-fold, compared to ethanol extract showing a decrease by only −0.29-folds. The histopathological evaluation of liver and pancreas of all groups revealed normal cell architecture with no morphological abnormalities. These results suggested the possible use of D. stewartii as anti-diabetic herbal drug in near future. However, these recommendations are conditioned by deep mechanistic studies.
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spelling pubmed-96041802022-10-27 Evaluation of Safety of Stewart’s Wood Fern (Dryopteris stewartii) and Its Anti-Hyperglycemic Potential in Alloxan-Induced Diabetic Mice Hanif, Uzma Raza, Chand Liaqat, Iram Rani, Maryam Afifi, Sherif M. Esatbeyoglu, Tuba Bahadur, Saraj Shahid, Sara Int J Mol Sci Article Diabetes has become a critical challenge to the global health concerns. Cytotoxicity and development of resistance against available drugs for management of diabetes have shifted the focus of global scientific researchers from synthetic to herbal medications. Therefore, the current study was conducted to investigate the possible anti-hyperglycemic potential of Dryopteris stewartii using Swiss albino mice. To evaluate any possible toxic effect of the plant, acute oral toxicity test was performed while the anti-diabetic effects of aqueous and ethanol extracts at 500 mg/kg, positive, negative and normal control were assessed simultaneously. The anti-diabetic study revealed that aqueous extract has higher anti-diabetic potential than ethanol extract while lowered blood glucose level at second week reaching 150 mg/dL, exerting stronger anti-diabetic effects, compared to ethanol extract (190 mg/dL). Oral glucose tolerance findings revealed that aqueous extract decreased blood glucose level by −0.41-fold, compared to ethanol extract showing a decrease by only −0.29-folds. The histopathological evaluation of liver and pancreas of all groups revealed normal cell architecture with no morphological abnormalities. These results suggested the possible use of D. stewartii as anti-diabetic herbal drug in near future. However, these recommendations are conditioned by deep mechanistic studies. MDPI 2022-10-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9604180/ /pubmed/36293291 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms232012432 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Hanif, Uzma
Raza, Chand
Liaqat, Iram
Rani, Maryam
Afifi, Sherif M.
Esatbeyoglu, Tuba
Bahadur, Saraj
Shahid, Sara
Evaluation of Safety of Stewart’s Wood Fern (Dryopteris stewartii) and Its Anti-Hyperglycemic Potential in Alloxan-Induced Diabetic Mice
title Evaluation of Safety of Stewart’s Wood Fern (Dryopteris stewartii) and Its Anti-Hyperglycemic Potential in Alloxan-Induced Diabetic Mice
title_full Evaluation of Safety of Stewart’s Wood Fern (Dryopteris stewartii) and Its Anti-Hyperglycemic Potential in Alloxan-Induced Diabetic Mice
title_fullStr Evaluation of Safety of Stewart’s Wood Fern (Dryopteris stewartii) and Its Anti-Hyperglycemic Potential in Alloxan-Induced Diabetic Mice
title_full_unstemmed Evaluation of Safety of Stewart’s Wood Fern (Dryopteris stewartii) and Its Anti-Hyperglycemic Potential in Alloxan-Induced Diabetic Mice
title_short Evaluation of Safety of Stewart’s Wood Fern (Dryopteris stewartii) and Its Anti-Hyperglycemic Potential in Alloxan-Induced Diabetic Mice
title_sort evaluation of safety of stewart’s wood fern (dryopteris stewartii) and its anti-hyperglycemic potential in alloxan-induced diabetic mice
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9604180/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36293291
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms232012432
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