In vitro and In vivo Anthelmintic Activity of
Nicotiana tabacum against
Haemonchus placei in
Cattle
Ali Haider1, Kashif Hussain1, Mohammed M. Mares2,
Asghar Abbas*1, Muhammad Mohsin3, Atif Rehman1,
Ume Habiba Firdous4, Muhammad Asif Raza1
1Faculty
of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Muhammad Nawaz Shareef University
of Agriculture (MNSUA), 66000, Multan, Pakistan; 2Department
of Zoology, College of Science, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2455,
Riyadh 11451, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; 3Department of
Pharmacology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou,
Guangdong, China; 4Department of Zoology, Wildlife and
Fisheries, Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Muhammad Nawaz
Shareef University of Agriculture (MNSUA), 66000, Multan, Pakistan
*Corresponding author:
asghar.abbas@mnsuam.edu.pk; kashif.hussain@mnsuam.edu.pk
Abstract
In current study, anti-parasitic properties of
Nicotiana tabacum leaves (N. tabacum L.) and their
traditional use in ethno-veterinary therapy were investigated using both
in-vitro and in-vivo approaches. Crude aqueous extracts (CAE) of N. tabacum
L. were used to evaluate in-vitro antiparasitic effect of
Haemonchus (H.) placei that had been directly retrieved from the
abomasum of cows. The nematodes' death or paralysis within three hours
subsequent to being exposed to different quantities 25, 50 and 100 mg/ml of CAE
proved to be statistically significant (P<0.05) indicator. Cattle infected with
gastrointestinal nematodes, specifically
H. placei, were orally administered with crude aqueous extracts (CAE) and
crude methanolic extracts (CME) at gradually higher dosage of 1.0 and 3.0 gm/kg,
respectively to evaluate in-vivo anthelmintic efficiency. When administered with
3.0 gm/kg of the body weight, CME showed an ideal decrease of 75.8 and 79.03%
parasitic infection but CAE showed 48.88 and 51.11% reduction after 5 and 10
days of treatment, respectively (P<0.05). The overall reduction in eggs per gram
was 98.68% in positive controls treated with levamisole HCl. Being an initial
investigation of its kind in Pakistan, the outcomes suggested that N. tabacum
L. have potential to be used as anti-parasitic agent in ethno-veterinary
medication.
To Cite This Article:
Haider A, Hussain K,
Mares MM, Abbas A, Mohsin M, Rehman A, Firdous UH, Raza1 MA, 2024. In vitro and
in vivo anthelmintic activity of Nicotiana
tabacum against
Haemonchus placei in cattle. Pak Vet J, 44(3): 745-750.
http://dx.doi.org/10.29261/pakvetj/2024.245