Chrozophora senegalensis A. Juss brine shrimp activity

Chrozophora senegalensis is a medicinal plant with widespread use in Northern Nigeria by the local populace for treatment of ailments and diseases such as diarrhea, malaria dysentery. The study evaluated Cytotoxicity C. crude methanol extract using brine shrimp lethality test. sample was air dried at room temperature, pulverized to powder subjected maceration methanol. marc removed double filtration cotton wool Whatmann No.1 filter paper. filtrate obtained concentrated on rotary evaporator 45 °C. partitioned between hexane ethyl acetate assay revealed that extracts are highly cytotoxic larvae LC50 4.68 µg/mL 0.76 fractions respectively. results suggest ethylacetate fraction more than fraction. However, had shown contains bioactive principles which could be useful antitumor agent partly justify its traditional medicine practice.