Antioxidant Capacity and Antimutagenic Potential of Murraya koenigii

Table 1

Antioxidant capacity of Murraya koenigii leaf fractions expressed as ascorbic acid equivalents (µmol/g of extract) by phosphomolybdenum method.

Concentration (µg/mL)	Antioxidant capacity (µmol/g of extract)
	Petrol ether	Benzene	Ethyl acetate	Acetone	Methanol	Ethanol
12.5	980.0^d  ±  18.3	1669.8^d  ±  21.1	939.4^d  ±  43.4	702.4^d  ±  26.2	261.0^d  ±  15.8	303.7^d  ±  13.4
25	1531.6^c  ±  50.7	2459.5^c  ±  75.4	1399.2^c  ±  19.5	1233.8^c  ±  47.1	398.5^c  ±  21.2	419.3^c  ±  10.1
50	1663.0^b  ±  56.9	3132.3^b  ±  97.2	1589.2^b  ±  66.9	1438.5^b  ±  39.4	522.5^b  ±  12.6	542.3^b  ±  16.6
100	1967.2^a  ±  67.4	3510.4^a  ±  95.8	1982.3^a  ±  84.3	1783.0^a  ±  86.4	638.7^a  ±  25.1	668.8^a  ±  15.3
LSD at 5%	109.01	116.04	102.06	81.02	43.89	7.93

The above data are the mean of three experiments ± SD; different letters in columns show significant difference in means. LSD: least significance difference.