Furthermore, many phytochemicals with different pharmacological properties have shown responses for the prevention or treatment of different tumors, e.g., flavones, flavanols, isoflavones, catechins, and taxanes [ 3- 7].
Plants as a rich source of phytochemicals with different biological activities including antiviral activities are in interest of scientists [ 59, 60].
Nutritional values such as ash, fiber, protein, fat, and carbohydrate contents were investigated, and phytochemical screenings with different reagents showed the presence of flavonoids, glycosides, saponin glycosides, phenolic compounds, steroids, tannins, and terpenoids.
However, further investigations with different phytochemicals alone and in different combinations between them are needed to test this hypothesis.
Based on traditional use, existing phytochemical knowledge and lack of toxicity, it was decided to screen the plant for antibacterial and antifungal activity using the technique of bioautography and to determine which phytochemicals could be extracted with different solvents using HPLC.
We hypothesized at the outset of this study that different phytochemicals with reputed anti-inflammatory activities may exhibit distinctive patterns of effects and kinetics as they intervene in specific steps in the inflammatory cascade, and that such phytochemicals may thus be subgrouped on those grounds, at the pharmacogenomic level, for systematic mechanism studies or therapeutic applications.
The study presented that power of fractions from roots of R. hastatus to scavenge DPPH radicals was associated with phytochemicals extracted by different solvents indicating that BRR and MRR can also possibly act as primary antioxidant.
In addition, the extracts with different polarities provide an idea about the specific phytochemical groups of the active principles present in the extracts.
Phytochemical screening of the dried ethanol GS leaves extract revealed the presence of several gymnemic acids with different molecular weights, which are summarized in Table 1.
Phytochemical screening analysis is a chemical analysis carried out for the detection of phytochemicals in different plants.
Means with different superscript (a-e) letters in the column are significantly (P < 0.05) different from one another The results of phytochemical analysis of all the extracts of E. dracunculoides are listed in Table 2.
