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Abstract

Musa sp. is one of Kalimantan Selatan original plant that empirically has benefit as herbal medicine for acceleration
of wound healing. Banana contain many phytochemicals such us saponin, flavonoid, and tannin which can be used as
antibiotic, pain relieving and anti inflamantory. This experiment was aimed to know the toxicity effect of methanolic
extract of mauli banana stem inmice livers histopathological. The research is pure experimental study using post test
only with control design. Populations were 25 mices, divided into 5 groups. Group I as negative control group were
given aquadest, and group II, III, IV, and V were given 125 mg, 250 mg, 500 mg, and 1000 mg methanolic extract of
Mauli banana stem. They were given treatment daily as long as 21 days. All of the mice were necropsied at day 22, and
the livers were taken for to examine their histopatological changes. Each liver tissue was processed by paraffin blockembededd

and hematoxylin eosin staining method. Histopathological changes were examined based on the present
necrosis, degeneration, and megalohepathosit lesions. The results showed light necrosis, degeneration, and
megalohepathosit on the treatment group. The conclusion was methanolic extract of Mauli banana stem dosage 1251000
mg/kg
bw
is not toxic significantly on the liver of mice.

Pages

81-85

Rights

©2016Maharani Laillyza Apriasari, Amy Nindia Carabelly, Ghea Tri Andini

DOI

10.15562/jdmfs.v12i2.355

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