Review Article
Recent Advances on the Use of Biochemical Extracts as Filaricidal Agents
Table 1
Bioproduct with reported filaricidal activity.
| Name | Family | Part used | Extraction method | Filarial pathogen | Dosage | Reference |
| Azadirachta indica | Meliaceae | Leaf | Organic solvent and water fractionation | Teladorsagia circumcincta | 3.1–50 mg/mL | [12] | Flower | Distilled ethanol Distilled water | Setaria cervi | 5–25 ng/mL | [17] | Andrographis paniculata | Acanthaceae | Leaf | Water decoction | Dipetalonema reconditum | 0.06 mL/Kg | [30] | Leaf | Aqueous extract | B. malayi | 0.5–10 mg/mL | [31] | Heliclona oculata | Chalinidae | Sponges | Methanol extract solvents fractionation | B. malayi | 100 mg/Kg | [16] | Haliclona exigua | Chalinidae | Sponges | methanolic extract and butanol fraction | B. malayi | 15.6–31.2 µm/mL | [26] | Trachyspermum ammi L. | Apiaceae | Fruits | Methanolic extract | Setaria digitata B. malayi | 0.01–0.5 mg/mL | [27] | Ricinus communis | Euphorbiaceae | Seed | Methanolic extract ethanol fractionation | B. malayi S. digitata | 10–100 µg/mL 1 mg/mL | [32] [33] | Morinda citrifolia | Rubiaceae | Fruits | Aqueous extract | W. bancrofti | 0.02–0.04 noni : media | [34] | Xylocarpus granatum | Meliaceae | Leaf | Ethanolic extract Aqueous extract | B. malayi B. pahangi | 100 mg/kg 0.5–10 mg/mL | [28] [31] | Hibiscus sabdariffa | Malvaceae | Leaf | Ethanolic extract | B. malayi | 500 mg–1 g/mL | [8] |
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