ANTIMICROBIAL AND ANTIOXIDANT
POTENTIAL OF IPOMOEA HEDERACEA
MUHAMMAD ZIA-UL-HAQ1, SHAKEEL AHMAD2, MILAN S.
STANKOVIC3, MUHAMMAD TAUSEEF SULTAN4, IMRAN IMRAN5,
VICTOR VELTER6, DIANA BADIU7, STELA HALICHIDIS8, TONY
HANGAN7*
1The Patent Office, Kandawala Building, M.A. Jinnah Road Karachi ,
Pakistan
2Department of Agronomy, Bahauddin Zakariya University , Multan
60800 , Pakistan
3Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of
Kragujevac, Street Radoja Domanovića No. 12, Kragujevac 34000,
Serbia
4Department of Food Science, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan-
60800, Pakistan
5Department of Pharmacology, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan-
60800, Pakistan
6Scientometrics Office, UESFISCDI, Bucharest 010362, Romania
7Faculty of Medicine, Ovidius University of Constanta 900470, Romania
8Clinical Infectious Diseases Hospital Constanta 900708, Romania
*corresponding author: toni@medcon.ro; tonyhangan@yahoo.com
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Abstract:

Research on antimicrobial and anti-oxidant activity from plant sources is
increasing due to positive effects on human health. However relatively little work has been
done to investigate the antimicrobial and antioxidant effects of methanolic extracts from
Ipomoea hederacea.
In the present study methanolic extracts of leaves, flowers, stem, seed and roots
from Ipomoea hederacea were evaluated using an antimicrobial assay, the determination of
total phenolic content, 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) free radical and the total
antioxidant capacity...






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