Abstract

In-vitro evaluation of the anti-diabetic activity of alcoholic extracts of certain plants belonging to families meliaceae and fabaceae

Author(s): Mohamed I.S.Abdelhady, Mahmoud Youns

The leaves of 4 plants belong to families Meliaceae and Fabaceae were exhaustively extracted with hot 80% Ethanol, under reflux. The dry residues of the alcoholic extracts were tested using Sucrase enzyme inhibitory activity test to evaluate their anti-diabetic activity. The alcoholic extracts exhibited significant invitro anti-diabetic activity.