Antioxidant And Anti-Inflammatory Effects Of Ethanolic And Aqueous Root Extracts Of Piliostigma Thonningii (Schumach.) Milne-Redhead
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Piliostigma thonningii is a tree with many ethnomedical and medico-religious uses. In Ivory Coast the roots associated with the leaves are used as an antidote for snakebites and for the treatment of gonorrhea and rheumatism. 2,2-Diphenyl 1-picrylhydrazyl is a free radical. This compound is used to measure the antioxidant activity of a plant by its ability to scavenge free radicals from DPPH. Antioxidants help protect our body against free radicals and thus prevent many diseases. The pharmacological importance of Piliostigma thonningii seems to be ignored by a large part of the population. The study of anti-inflammatory activity in vivo which consists of provoking an acute inflammation induced in rats by injection of carrageenan. AEPT and EEPT show significant anti-inflammatory activity. They very significantly inhibit the development of paw edema induced by carrageenan. They significantly reduce the recruitment of immune cells to the inflammatory site. Piliostigma thonningii extracts work by blocking the formation of prostaglandins, the substances responsible for inflammation. The results of study suggest that Piliostigma thonningii possess some antioxidant properties and provide relief against inflammation making it a possible future therapy for inflammation.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".