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Record W4376632083 · doi:10.47413/vidya.v2i1.169

INVESTIGATING THE QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE PHYTOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF ACANTHOCEREUS TETRAGONUS (CACTACEAE FAMILY) ALONG WITH THE ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY

2023· article· en· W4376632083 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueVIDYA - A JOURNAL OF GUJARAT UNIVERSITY · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicBotanical Research and Applications
Canadian institutionsImpact
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPhytochemicalDPPHEthyl acetateFlavonoidTraditional medicineAntioxidantCactusHealth benefitsMedicinal plantsChemistryFood scienceBiologyBotanyBiochemistryMedicine

Abstract

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Acanthocereus tetragonus is a cactus plant belonging to family Cactaceae. Literature suggests that cactus plants are known for their anti-inflammatory, anti-ulcer, anti-diabetic, anti-obesity, and anti-cancer properties. Thus, cactus plants have a wide range of therapeutic properties and have been used for centuries by indigenous people for their medicinal benefits. While more research is needed to fully understand the mechanisms behind these therapeutic effects, the use of cactus plants in traditional medicine is a promising avenue for future research and development of new therapeutics. Therefore, the present study aims to evaluate the qualitative and quantitative phytochemicals and antioxidant property of Acanthocereus tetragonus plant. The study reports the total phenolic and flavonoid content of both hydro-methanolic and ethyl acetate extracts, using the Folin-Ciocalteau and aluminium chloride method respectively. The hydro-methanolic extract exhibited higher total phenolic content, while the ethyl acetate extract had a higher total flavonoid content. Antioxidant activity was also measured using DPPH and FRAP assays, and the hydro-methanolic extract showed comparatively better free radical scavenging activity than ethyl acetate extract. However, the study highlights the importance of quantitative phytochemical analysis for understanding the chemical composition and their potential benefits for human health. The results also suggest that A. tetragonus extracts have significant antioxidant activity and can be explored further for their potential medicinal and therapeutic uses.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.974
Threshold uncertainty score0.273

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.068
GPT teacher head0.321
Teacher spread0.254 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it