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Effect of Asparagus racemosus on selected female reproductive parameters using Wistar rat model.

2019· article· en· W3020702712 on OpenAlex
Linet Mwende Kaaria

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
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Bibliographic record

VenueDiscovery Phytomedicine - Journal of Natural Products Research and Ethnopharmacology · 2019
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicPhytochemical and Pharmacological Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAsparagus racemosusAsparagusEstrous cycleGestationUterine contractionLitterUterusMedicineIbuprofenBiologyInternal medicineAnimal scienceEndocrinologyTraditional medicinePregnancyPharmacologyBotanyMedicinal plants

Abstract

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Dysmenorrhea is a major cause of female morbidity globally. Asparagus racemosus (ASP) is traditionally used to manage dysmenorrhea in Nakuru, Kenya. This study evaluates the effect of Asparagus racemosus on female reproductive parameters; estrus cyclicity, mating success, gestation length, litter size and dysmenorrhea. The effect of Asparagus racemosus and ibuprofen on isolated uterine strips was evaluated using six non-pregnant rats. The uterine strips were exposed to serial extract concentrations (20, 40, 80,160 mg/ml) and 20 mg/ml ibuprofen was used as a positive control.There was significant increase of proestrus phase (P < 0.001) and a subsequent significant reduction in the metestrus (P < 0.01) and diestrus (P < 0.05). No significant difference in mating success and gestation length, however Ibuprofen caused significant disruption of gestation length (P < 0.05). Â The treated groups produced higher number of pups compared to controls. The plant extract caused a dose dependent significant reduction in uterine force of contraction by (-0.15%, -5.13%, -7.97%, -19.55 %) at 20, 40, 80 and 160 mg/ml respectively. The plant extract also caused a significant decline in frequency of uterine contraction (-5.99%; -9.61%; -16.76% and -25.21%) The extract caused no mortality even at the limit dose; 5000 mg/kg. Asparagus racemosus reduces uterine force and frequency of contraction. This is probably the reason for its traditional use in dysmenorrhea management.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesResearch integrity
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.028
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.073
GPT teacher head0.424
Teacher spread0.351 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it