In Vitro Anthelmintic Activity of Five Different
Artemisia L. Species
Growing in Türkiye
Şüheda Rumeysa Osmanlıoğlu Dağ1,
Mahmut Sinan Erez2, Esma Kozan2*, Ayşe Mine
Gençler Özkan3 andİffet İrem Tatlı Çankaya4
1İnönü
University, Health Sciences Vocational School, Malatya, Türkiye;
2Afyon Kocatepe University, Faculty of Veterinary
Medicine, Department of Parasitology, Afyonkarahisar, 03200, Türkiye;
3Ankara University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of
Pharmaceutical Botany, Ankara, 06560, Türkiye; 4Hacettepe
University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical
Botany, Ankara, 06100, Türkiye
*Corresponding author:
esmakozan@aku.edu.tr
Abstract
This study aims to determinate in vitro
anthelmintic activity of the plant extracts from the aerial part of five
different Artemisia L.
species (A. absinthium L., A. abrotanum
L.,
A. annua L., A. incana (L.)
Druce, A. tournefortiana Rchb.) growing in Türkiye. Depending on the
ethnobotanical usage, the aqueous plant extracts were prepared by decoction and
maceration methods. The anthelmintic activity of the plant extracts on
Haemonchus (H.) contortus eggs and larvae was assessed using
in vitro test methods. The extracts were prepared in five
concentrations (50; 25; 12.5; 6,25; 3.125 and 1.5625 mg/mL) by using PBS for egg
hatch and larval motility inhibition assay. In comparison to the negative
control group, the extracts had significant anthelmintic effect on H.
contortus eggs and larvae (p<0.05). In the egg hatch assay, all plants were
found to be fully effective in the concentration range studied. In the analysis
of larval motility, the activity was correlated with the quantities of the plant
extracts. When the concentration-activity values of the plants were examined for
both extraction methods, the highest activity was in
A. annua and the lowest activity was
observed in A. tournefortiana. Due to
the development of resistance to anthelmintic drugs, natural sources such as
Artemisia species can be considered as
an alternative for the treatment of nematodes.
To Cite This Article:
Dağ SRO, Erez MS, Kozan E, Özkan AMG,Çankaya
İİT, 2023. In Vitro Anthelmintic
activity of five different Artemisia L.
species growing in Türkiye. Pak Vet J, 43(4): 771-777. http://dx.doi.org/10.29261/pakvetj/2023.087