Research Article
Evaluation of Antioxidant, Cytotoxic, Anti-Inflammatory,
Antiarthritic, Thrombolytic, and Anthelmintic Activity of
Methanol Extract of Lepidagathis hyalina Nees Root
Shafiqul Islam,
1
Fowzul Islam Fahad,
1
Arifa Sultana,
2
Syed Al Jawad Sayem,
1
Shawon Baran Roy,
1
Mohammad Nazmul Islam ,
1
Arpita Roy ,
3
and Mohammed Abu Sayeed
1
1
Department of Pharmacy, International Islamic University Chittagong, Chittagong-4318, Bangladesh
2
Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Dhaka, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh
3
Department of Biotechnology, School of Engineering & Technology, Sharda University, Greater Noida, India
Correspondence should be addressed to Mohammad Nazmul Islam; nazmul@iiuc.ac.bd, Arpita Roy; arbt2014@gmail.com, and
Mohammed Abu Sayeed; pmasayeed@yahoo.com
Received 31 December 2021; Revised 17 January 2022; Accepted 20 January 2022; Published 15 February 2022
Academic Editor: Ruchika Garg
Copyright © 2022 Shafiqul Islam et al. is is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License,
which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Lepidagathis hyalina Nees is an ethnomedicinally potential Asian herb, locally used to treat cardiovascular diseases and coughs.
e study was intended to evaluate qualitative and quantitative investigation to ensure numerous pharmacological properties of
methanol extracts of L. hyalina Ness root (MELHR). MELHR manifested strong radical scavenging activity in the reducing power
and DPPH (1, 1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl) assays, and phenol and flavonoid in the quantitative assays. In the study of the
thrombolytic assay, MELHR showed moderate explicit percentage of clot lysis (29.39 ± 1.40%)withmoderate(135.35 µg/mL) toxic
properties. e in vitro anti-inflammatory activity was evaluated by the inhibition of hypotonicity-induced RBC hemolysis,
whereas the plant extract exhibited a significant (pp 0.005) dose-dependent inhibition and the highest inhibition was found
55.01 ± 3.22% at 1000 µg/mL concentration. Moreover, the MELHR also showed significant (p < 0.005) dose-dependent po-
tentiality on protein denaturation which is considered as antiarthritic activity, and the peak inhibition was found significant
(71.97 ± 2.71%) at 1000 µg/mL concentration. MELHR also exhibited the dose-dependent and statistically significant anthelmintic
potential on aquarium worm (Tubifextubifex). So, the present investigation suggests that L. hyalina couldbethebestchoiceforthe
management of cardiovascular, inflammation, arthritis, and anthelmintic diseases. Further investigation should be necessary to
determine behind the mechanism of bioactivity and therapeutic potential of this plant.
1. Introduction
Free radicals are major concern for biological evolution and
also have certain beneficial effects on some species [1]. An
imbalance between the accumulation and production of ROS
in tissues causes oxidative stress [2, 3]. Oxidative stress
triggers inflammation, which in chronic conditions results in
atherosclerosis formation, thrombosis, plaque rupture,
myocardial injury, and failure like serious cardiac diseases
[4, 5]. Different epidemiological studies express that some
inflammatory mediators not only facilitate the proliferation of
malignant cells in the microenvironment of the tumor, but
also induce metastasis and angiogenesis and redefine the
responses of hormones, chemotherapeutic agents, and overall
adaptive immunity [6]. Some bioactive compounds such as
capsaicin, catechins, lycopenes, cucurbitacin B, isoflavones,
phenethyl isothiocyanate, benzyl isothiocyanate, and piper-
longumine have been proved to exert effective pharmaco-
logical activities to treat cancer [7]. Certain phytochemicals
like thymol, berberine, curcumin, lycopene, epigallocatechin,
resveratrol, vanillin, and sulforaphane may also reduce the
possibility of the onset of several types of cancer [8–11].
Hindawi
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Volume 2022, Article ID 2515260, 10 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/2515260