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Ficus glumosa Del. reduces phenylhydrazine-induced hemolytic anaemia and hepatic damage in Wistar rats

  • Azubuike Ikechukwu Okafor EMAIL logo and Cecilia Ushike Atsu
Published/Copyright: January 24, 2022
Journal of Complementary and Integrative Medicine
From the journal Journal of Complementary and Integrative Medicine Volume 19 Issue 3

Abstract

Objectives

Anemia is a direct or indirect consequence of oxidative stress via free radicals on erythrocytes and subsequently on other tissues like liver. Ficus glumosa constitute a rich pharmacologically compound that can prevent or repair oxidative damage. Therefore, this study seeks to evaluate the effect of F. glumosa on phenylhydrazine-induced hemolytic anemia and hepatic damage in rats.

Methods

Twenty-four (24) albino Wistar rats were assigned to four (4) experimental groups (n=6) as follows: Group I (non-anemic control) and Group 2 (anemic control) received normal saline, while Group III and IV (test groups) 200 and 400 mg/kg of aqueous leaf extract of F. glumosa (ALEFG), respectively. All the groups were treated orally (via a cannula) for seven consecutive days. Intraperitoneal (IP) injection of phenylhydrazine (PHZ) at 40 mg/kg for two consecutive days induced hemolytic anemia in group II to IV before treatment. Rats of all groups were anaesthetized and sacrificed 24 h after the last treatment. Blood and liver samples were collected for some hematological indices, liver function test, antioxidant parameter and histological analysis.

Results

The LD50 of ALEFG was assessed orally in rats and found to be above 5,000 mg/kg body weight. Significant (p<0.05) decreases in the level of red blood cell (RBC), hemoglobin (HGB) concentrations and packed cell volume (PCV) by 50% after 2 days of PHZ induction, were attenuated by more than 50% after 7 days administration of ALEFG at 200 and 400 mg/kg. The percentage change in body weight increased significantly (p<0.05) after 7 days post PHZ-induced anemia, but those that received oral administration of ALEFG (at 200 and 400 mg/kg) for 7 days increased significantly (p<0.05) by more than 2%, dose-dependently compared to anemic untreated group. Increased level of serum ALT, AST, ALP and GGT in PHZ-induced anemic animals, were significantly (p<0.05) attenuated in the groups that received oral administration of ALEFG (at 200 and 400 mg/kg) for 7 days. Decreased level of catalase (CAT) and superoxide dismutase (SOD) activities with concomitant increase in malondialdehyde (MDA) content from PHZ-induced untreated group, were significantly (p<0.05) mitigated in the rats that received oral administration of ALEFG (at 200 and 400 mg/kg) for 7 days. Histopathological analysis showed that ALEFG could remarkably though not completely mitigated PHZ-induced hepatic damage.

Conclusions

Our data suggests that the leaves of F. glumosa contain important antioxidant(s) that could effectively reduce hemolytic anemia and hepatic damage, especially during phenylhydrazine-induced toxicity.

Keywords: antioxidant; Ficus glumosa ; hemolytic anemia; hepatic damage; oxidative stress
Corresponding author: Dr. Azubuike Ikechukwu Okafor, PhD, Department of Medical Biochemistry, Cross River University of Technology, P.M.B. 1123, Calabar, Nigeria, Phone: +2348035723454, E-mail:

Acknowledgments

The authors wish to thank Mrs. Rosemary Chioma Okafor, for her scientific and technical contributions.

  1. Research funding: None declared.

  2. Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.

  3. Competing interests: Authors state no conflict of interest.

  4. Informed consent: Not applicable.

  5. Ethical approval: Ethical approval for this study (CRUTECH/OFR/IREC/2020-A0610) was obtained from Institutional Research Ethical Committee of Cross River University of Technology (CRUTECH), Calabar, Nigeria. Research protocol was performed in accordance with the guidelines established by CRUTECH Institutional Research Ethical Committee (IREC) following the principle laid down in the Declaration of Helsinki (1964), as revised in 2013 and National Institute of Health (NIH) Principles of Laboratory Animal Care.

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Received: 2021-07-17
Accepted: 2022-01-11
Published Online: 2022-01-24

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Keywords for this article
antioxidant; Ficus glumosa; hemolytic anemia; hepatic damage; oxidative stress

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