Investigation of Cardiac Protective Activity of Methanolic Extracts of Garcinia Indica in Rats

Saini Supraja¹, Dr. Nagaraju, M.Kulkarni², Dr. Vijaya Kumar Gampa^3*
1KGR Institute of Technology and Management, Rampally, Kesara, Rangareddy, Telangana, India.
²Asso. Professor, KGR Institute of Technology and Management, Rampally, Kesara, Rangareddy, Telangana, India.
³Professor and Head, Dept. of Pharmacy, KGR Institute of Technology and Management, Rampally, Kesara, Rangareddy, Telangana, India.

A B S T R A C T
Atherosclerotic heart disease, heart attack and heart stroke, but atherosclerosis is primary cause of death. Developing countries are reliant on medicinal plants as their main source of treatment for diseases. As Garcinia indica have the native habitat the production is more so it is locally available cost effective with no side effects. As Garcinia indica is cost effective and beneficiary in metabolism of cholesterol, so it has been taken in to consideration in order “To evaluate cardioprotective activity of Methanolic Extracts of Garcinia indica in isoproterenol induced cardiac toxicity in rats. And the final results showed that this plant shows the cardiac protective activity and also shows minimal side effects towards the cardiac and cardiac muscle tissues.
Keywords: Garcinia indica, cardiac muscle, cardioprotective.