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Record W4320526216 · doi:10.1016/j.sciaf.2023.e01575

Acute and sub-acute toxicological evaluation of ethanol extract of Alchornea cordifolia leaves in Wistar rats

2023· article· en· W4320526216 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueScientific African · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
TopicDrug-Induced Hepatotoxicity and Protection
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersFaculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of CalgaryAhmadu Bello University
KeywordsAcute toxicityToxicityMedicinal plantsTraditional medicineMedicinePharmacologyBiologyInternal medicine

Abstract

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Medicinal plants have over time played important roles in many indigenous primary health care systems. Alchornea cordifolia, a widely distributed plant, is a commonly used medicinal plant for the treatment and management of many disease conditions. The present study involved the evaluation of the acute and sub-acute toxicity studies of ethanol leaf extract of A. cordifolia in male Wistar rats. The hematological and biochemical profiles evaluation was via the automated hematologic analyzer and the spectrophotometer with sodium and calcium ions evaluations using flame photometer, and tissue histopathological evaluations following standard procedures. The results showed no visible signs of acute toxicity at a limit dose of 5000 mg/kg. The plant leaf extract did not induce anemia or change the immunocompetence of the treated rats after 28 days of treatment. There was a significant (p<0.05) alteration in some of the evaluated biochemical parameters. Visible histopathological changes occurred only in the liver and pancreas of the treated rats. The recorded changes following the treatment were more obvious at 200 mg/kg than in other groups compared to the control. These findings showed that the use of ethanol leaf extract of the plant is apparently safe when administered orally. However, the plant leaf extract needs investigation over prolonged exposure, and at higher doses, because of some forms of hepato-intestinal cellular damage observed in the treated male Wistar rats at the present administration.

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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)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
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 score0.030
Threshold uncertainty score0.658

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.233
GPT teacher head0.459
Teacher spread0.226 · 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