{"id":4640,"date":"2023-07-18T14:19:11","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T14:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/?p=4640"},"modified":"2023-07-28T14:24:32","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T14:24:32","slug":"west-african-journal-of-pharmacy-2017-28-2-123-131","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/west-african-journal-of-pharmacy-2017-28-2-123-131\/","title":{"rendered":"West African Journal of Pharmacy (2017) 28 (2) 123-131"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Antimicrobial activity of Pseudocedrela kotschyi (Meliaceae) stem bark in traditional dental care<\/b><\/p>

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Ifeoma C. Orabueze , Stephen O. Oyebode , AbdulRahman R. Usman and Ejeatuluchukwu Obi<\/p>

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Department of Pharmacognosy; Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology,<\/p>

Faculty of Pharmacy, College of Medicine campus, University of Lagos, PMB 12003, Surulere, Lagos, Nigeria;<\/p>

Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, College of Health Sciences,\u00a0Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nnewi-Campus, Nnewi, Anambra-State<\/span><\/p>

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Corresponding author: Ifeoma Orabueze<\/p>

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Background:<\/b> Pseudocedrela kotschyi (Meliaceae) stem bark is widely accepted as chewing stick in Nigeria,\u00a0used as such and in management of mild mouth cavity infections.<\/span><\/p>

Objective:<\/b> This study was carried out to evaluate and justify the traditional use of Pseudocedrela kotschyi\u00a0(Meliaceae) stem bark in dental care.<\/span><\/p>

Methods:<\/b> The methanolic stem bark extract of P. kotschyi and its fractions were evaluated for possible anti-microbial activities against micro-organisms isolated from the teeth cavity (Staphlococcus aureus,\u00a0<\/span>Streptococcus, Lactobacillus, Actinomyces, Candida albicans and Aspergillus).Agar diffusion bio assay method\u00a0<\/span>was employed for the study. Chlorhexidine gluconate and sterile water were used as the positive and negative\u00a0<\/span>control respectively.<\/span><\/p>

Results:<\/b> Data obtained shows a dose dependent zone of inhibition of test bacteria while insignificant or no\u00a0inhibitory activity was observed for test fungi by both the extract and the fractions. Higher growth inhibitory\u00a0<\/span>effect were seen with the polar fractions (butanol and aqueous remainder) compared to the extract at\u00a0<\/span>-1\u00a0<\/span>concentration of 100 mg mL . Chlorhexidine gluconate exhibited sensitivity for all tested microorganisms.<\/span><\/p>

Conclusion:<\/b> The study justifies the traditional use of chewing stick, P. kotschyi as an alternative in\u00a0management of dental infections caused by susceptible organisms. Further study could be done to isolate and\u00a0<\/span>characterize the active phytochemicals present in the plant bark.<\/span><\/p>

Keywords:<\/b> Pseudocedrela kotschyi, antimicrobial activities, dental disinfection, chewing stick<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Antimicrobial activity of Pseudocedrela kotschyi (Meliaceae) stem bark in traditional dental care \u00a0 Ifeoma C. Orabueze , Stephen O. Oyebode , AbdulRahman R. Usman and Ejeatuluchukwu Obi \u00a0 Department of Pharmacognosy; Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy, College of Medicine campus, University of Lagos, PMB 12003, Surulere, Lagos, Nigeria; Department of Pharmacology […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[233],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4640"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4646,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640\/revisions\/4646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}