Effects of the medicinal plant Blumea balsamifera extract on human lymphocytes, in vitro

Date of Publication

1995

Document Type

Bachelor's Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Science in Biology

College

College of Science

Department/Unit

Biology

Abstract/Summary

The medicinal plant Blumea balsamifera or Sambong used was in tablet form. The extraction was done by pulverization of the tablet and put into boiling for 5 minutes. The lymphocytes were isolated from whole blood through centrifugation methods. The isolated lymphocytes were cultured and treated with mitogen to serve as positive control, the different concentrations of the extract at 2, 1 and 0.5 to serve as the experimental groups and the untreated lymphocytes to serve as the negative control group. After 72 hours of incubation, the lymphocyte culture was harvested and counted in terms of live and dead cells and percent cell viability. The experimental group exhibited a mean cell count and percent viability lower than the positive and negative controls, thus, suggesting that the sambong extract at the said concentrations did not exert a proliferative but rather an inhibitory effect on human lymphocytes in vitro.

Abstract Format

html

Language

English

Format

Print

Accession Number

TU07318

Shelf Location

Archives, The Learning Commons, 12F, Henry Sy Sr. Hall

Physical Description

44 leaves

Keywords

Medicinal plants; Extracts; Blumbea; Lymphocytes; Plants; Useful

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