IN VITRO ANTIOXIDANT STUDIES OF CARDIOSPERMUM HALICACABUM L. VAR. LURIDUM (BLUME) ADELB SEEDS

Cardiospermum halicacabum Linn. (Sapindaceae) is a climber, commonly found throughout India, used as vegetable as well as traditional medicine for rheumatism, lumbago and nervous diseases. In the current study, we investigated the antioxidant potency of successive extracts of C. halicacabum seeds employing various established in vitro systems, such as the lipid peroxidation, nitric oxide radical scavenging and reduced glutathione assay. Furthermore, all the extracts exhibited concentration dependent inhibition in all the models at tested doses 25-1000 µg/ ml. The data obtained in the in-vitro models clearly establish the antioxidant potency of C. halicacabum seed extract.