Research Article

Screening of Natural Bioactive Metabolites and Investigation of Antioxidant, Antimicrobial, Antihyperglycemic, Neuropharmacological, and Cytotoxicity Potentials of Litsea polyantha Juss. Ethanolic Root Extract

Table 3

Neuropharmacological effect of ethanolic extract of Litsea polyantha on hole cross test.

Treatment (oral) groupNumber of holes crossed by the mice
0 min30 min60 min90 min120 min180 min

Negative control10.2 ± 0.808.6 ± 0.518.2 ± 0.587.6 ± 0.516.6 ± 0.58.6 ± 0.92
Positive control (diazepam)9.4 ± 0.512.4 ± 0.41.8 ± 0.371.4 ± 0.512.0 ± 0.702.2 ± 0.37
Root 250 mg/kg10.8 ± 0.378.0 ± 0.557.8 ± 0.377.0 ± 0.326.0 ± 0.327.8 ± 0.37
Root 500 mg/kg10.2 ± 0.377.6 ± 0.516.4 ± 0.515.2 ± 0.375.0 ± 0.326.4 ± 0.24

, , and when compared with negative control. The significance level for individual experiment period has been shown in Supplementary Table .