IN VITRO AND IN VIVO EVALUATION OF ANTIMICROBIAL AND ANTIOXIDANT POTENTIAL OF STEVIA EXTRACT

The current trend globally is the utilization of natural products as therapeutic agents given its minimum side effects. The leaves of contain several active ingredient compounds such as rebaudioside. extract have been used for many purposes. Active oxygen radicals can induce base modifications, DNA breakage, and intracellular protein crosslink's. This study was done to evaluate the potential of extract as antibacterial and antioxidants actions. Antibacterial activity of different extracts of was tested in vitro against different species of bacteria and hepato-protective efficacy was testes in rats injected with CCl as hepatotoxic. Acetone extract exhibited antibacterial activity against selected five bacteria species. The acetone extract suppressed the elevation of serum ALT (p