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ArticleTropical medicine and health2020

Ethnopharmacological evaluation of schistosomicidal and cercaricidal activities of some selected medicinal plants from Ghana.

Desmond Omane Acheampong, Ninette Owusu-Adzorah, Francis Ackah Armah, Enoch Aninagyei, Ernest Amponsah Asiamah, Ama Kyeraa Thomford, William Kofi Anyan

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Article in Tropical medicine and health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. An insight into the potent medicinal plantThe Nucleus : an international journal of cytology and allied topics · 2022
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  7. Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2022
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  8. The Activity of Plant Crude Extracts againstJournal of parasitology research · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Desmond Omane Acheampong1Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Allied Health Sciences, College of Health and Allied Science, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana.
Ninette Owusu-Adzorah1Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Allied Health Sciences, College of Health and Allied Science, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana.
Francis Ackah Armah1Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Allied Health Sciences, College of Health and Allied Science, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana.
Enoch Aninagyei2Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Basic and Biomedical Sciences, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Volta Region, Ghana.
Ernest Amponsah Asiamah1Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Allied Health Sciences, College of Health and Allied Science, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana.
Ama Kyeraa Thomford1Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Allied Health Sciences, College of Health and Allied Science, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana.
William Kofi Anyan3Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana.
University of Cape Coast · GHUniversity of Ghana · GHUniversity of Health and Allied Sciences · GH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe adulticidal and cercaricidal activities of five Ghanaian medicinal plants, namely,

resultsAll the plants exhibited varying cercaricidal and adulticidal activities against

conclusion

Indexed as

Azadirachta indicaCercariaeSchistosoma mansoniVernonia amygdalina

Identifiers

PMID32308530
PMCPMC7147056
OpenAlexW3016864905

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