Publication: The Possibility of Using Isolated Alkaloid Compounds and Crude Extracts of Piper retrofractum (Piperaceae) as Larvicidal Control Agents for Culex quinquefasciatus (Diptera: Culicidae) Larvae
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2018-08-29
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19382928
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Mahidol University
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Journal of medical entomology. Vol.55, No.5 (2018), 1231-1236
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Phatcharaphon Wiwattanawanichakun, Atcharee Ratwatthananon, Waraporn Poonsri, Thitaree Yooboon, Wanchai Pluempanupat, Narisara Piyasaengthong, Saksit Nobsathian, Vasakorn Bullangpoti The Possibility of Using Isolated Alkaloid Compounds and Crude Extracts of Piper retrofractum (Piperaceae) as Larvicidal Control Agents for Culex quinquefasciatus (Diptera: Culicidae) Larvae. Journal of medical entomology. Vol.55, No.5 (2018), 1231-1236. doi:10.1093/jme/tjy082 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/44693
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The Possibility of Using Isolated Alkaloid Compounds and Crude Extracts of Piper retrofractum (Piperaceae) as Larvicidal Control Agents for Culex quinquefasciatus (Diptera: Culicidae) Larvae
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Culex quinquefasciatus is a common domestic mosquito that is widespread in many areas of Thailand and serves as a southeastern vector of Japanese encephalitis. The present study investigated the acute toxicity of crude extracts and alkaloid compounds of Piper retrofractum (Piperales: Piperaceae) in Cx. quinquefasciatus third instar larvae. P. retrofractum was sequentially extracted using hexane, dichloromethane, ethyl acetate, and methanol, and the crude extracts were tested on mosquito larvae. Detoxification and neuroenzymes were analyzed to establish the mode of action. Acute toxicity was assessed on Poecilia reticulata (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae) to determine the possibility of toxicity in a nontarget species. Our results showed crude hexane extract had the highest toxicity in Cx. quinquefasciatus (0.9 ppm). Piperine and piperanine, which are alkaloid compounds from the crude hexane extract, showed LC50 values of 0.27 and 2.97 ppm, respectively, after 24 h of exposure. All the crude extracts showed low toxicity in P. reticulata compared with that in the mosquito larvae. The carboxylesterase, glutathione-S-transferase, and acetylcholinesterase activities in Cx. quinquefasciatus were reduced after treatment with all the extracts and the two alkaloid compounds. Thus, P. retrofractum shows larvicidal effects against Cx. quinquefasciatus and low toxicity for nontarget species. Thus, P. retrofractum could be a choice for controlling Cx. quinquefasciatus.