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ArticleEconomic botany

Medicinal Plants Used for Treating Reproductive Health Care Problems in Cameroon, Central Africa

Roger Tsobou, Pierre Marie Mapongmetsem, Patrick Van Damme

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Article in Economic botany. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed
4.1field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 80 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Trial
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  3. Reproductive and immune-related consequences ofFrontiers in veterinary science · 2026
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  8. Role of Chitosan-Loaded Solanine Glycoalkaloid fromTurkish journal of pharmaceutical sciences · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Roger TsobouDepartment of Plant Biology, University of Dschang, Dschang, Cameroon ; Department of Biological Sciences, University of Ngaoundéré, Ngaoundéré, Cameroon ; Department of Plant Production, Laboratory of Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture and Ethnobotany, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Pierre Marie MapongmetsemDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Ngaoundéré, Ngaoundéré, Cameroon.
Patrick Van DammeDepartment of Plant Production, Laboratory of Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture and Ethnobotany, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium ; Department of Crop Science and Agroforestry, Faculty of Tropical Agrisciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic.
Ghent University · BEUniversité de Dschang · CMUniversity of Ngaoundéré · CM

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Ethnobotanicalfertility problemsmedicinal plantsreproductive healthcaretraditional healersvenereal diseasesWest Region Cameroon

Identifiers

PMID27429475
PMCPMC4927590
OpenAlexW2394747578

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Registered trials

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