Amino Acid Composition of Cissus Populnea Stem Bark Extract

The qualitative and quantitative analyses of the composition of amino acid in ground stem bark of Cissus populnea was studied as preliminary part of a wider study. Ground Cissus stem bark, 8gm of, was dried to constant weight, defatted with chloroform/methanol (2:1) mixture using soxhlet extractor apparatus, hydrolysed and evaporated in a rotary evaporator, and then loaded into the technicon sequential multi sample amino acid analyzer (TMS). Cissus stem bark contains higher amount of glutamate (9.65), arginine (7.25) and alanine (3.05), compared to others like valine (0.16), phenylalanine (0.17) and isoleucine (0.18).