Bulletin of the National Research Centre

Table 1 Chemical compounds present in different stem bark extracts of Bombax costatum

From: Oral acute toxicity study on stem bark extracts of Bombax costatum Pellegr. and Vuillet on wistar albino rats

Secondary metabolites	Different extracts
Secondary metabolites	Chloroform extract	Ethanol extract	n-hexane extract
Alkaloids	+	+	+
Flavonoids	+	+	+
Saponins	+	+	+
Tannins	+	+	−
Steroids and terpenes	+	+	+
Cardiac glycosides	+	+	+
Anthraquinones	+	+	+

+ Present − Absent

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