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
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
Recommended Citation
Reyes, A. B. (1995). Effects of the medicinal plant Blumea balsamifera extract on human lymphocytes, in vitro. Retrieved from https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/1339