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ArticleFrontiers in pharmacology2021

Pharmacological Assessment of the Antiprotozoal Activity, Cytotoxicity and Genotoxicity of Medicinal Plants Used in the Treatment of Malaria in the Greater Mpigi Region in Uganda.

Fabien Schultz, Ogechi Favour Osuji, Anh Nguyen, Godwin Anywar, John R Scheel, Guy Caljon, Luc Pieters, Leif-Alexander Garbe

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Article in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 10% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.

Fabien SchultzInstitute of Biotechnology, Faculty III-Process Sciences, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Ogechi Favour OsujiDepartment of Agriculture and Food Sciences, Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences, Neubrandenburg, Germany.
Anh NguyenDepartment of Agriculture and Food Sciences, Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences, Neubrandenburg, Germany.
Godwin AnywarDepartment of Plant Sciences, Microbiology and Biotechnology, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
John R ScheelDepartment of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States.
Guy CaljonLaboratory of Microbiology, Parasitology and Hygiene, Faculty of Pharmaceutical, Biomedical and Veterinary Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
Luc PietersNatural Products & Food Research and Analysis (NatuRA), Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
Leif-Alexander GarbeDepartment of Agriculture and Food Sciences, Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences, Neubrandenburg, Germany.
Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences · DEUniversity of Antwerp · BEMakerere University · UGTechnische Universität Berlin · DEUniversity of Washington · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We investigated the potential antimalarial and toxicological effects of 16 medicinal plants frequently used by traditional healers to treat malaria, fever, and related disorders in the Greater Mpigi region in Uganda. Species studied were

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antiprotozoalcytotoxicityethnopharmacologygenotoxicitymalariamedicinal plantsMpigiUganda

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PMID34276369
PMCPMC8278201
OpenAlexW3176848665

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