<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Raceline Gounoue Kamkumo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Abel Narcisse Messi Betene</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Patrick Valere Tsouh Fokou</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jean Hubert Donfack</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Marius Jaurès Tsakem Nangap</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Albertine Ngako</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Roberto Fokou</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mariscal Brice Tchatat Tali</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Florence Ngueguim Tsofack</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Théophile Dimo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fabrice Fekam Boyom</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Antimalarial Effects of the Aqueous Extract of Entandrophragma angolense Bark on Plasmodium berghei Infection in Mice</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pharmacognosy Journal</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Antiplasmodial activity</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">E. angolense</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Malaria infection</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mice</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">P. berghei</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2020</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">June 2020</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">12</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">687-698</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p class=&quot;rtejustify&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background:&lt;/strong&gt; Research for new antimalarial drugs remains a permanent quest for the control of malaria. &lt;strong&gt;Objective:&lt;/strong&gt; The present study investigates the effects of the aqueous extract of &lt;em&gt;Entandrophragma angolense&lt;/em&gt; bark on&lt;em&gt; P. berghei-&lt;/em&gt;induced malaria in mice. &lt;strong&gt;Methods: &lt;/strong&gt;Eight weeks old mice, were intraperitoneally infested with 200 μl of blood, containing 1x10&lt;sup&gt;6&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;em&gt;P. berghei&lt;/em&gt;-infected-erythrocytes. Parasitaemia was determined using a 10% giemsa stained blood smear read under optical microscope (x100). The infected animals were randomized into 5 groups of 10 animals each and daily treated for 5 days with the plant extract at 125, 250 and 500 mg/kg. The normal control and malaria control received water while the chloroquine control was treated with 10 mg/kg of chloroquine. Body weight, parasitaemia and survival time were monitored daily during treatment and follow up periods. Five animals from each group were sacrificed under anaesthesia at the end of treatment (d8) and after the follow up period (d28). Venous blood was used for haematological and biochemical tests. Organs (liver, kidneys and spleen) were also collected for biochemical and histological analyses. &lt;strong&gt;Results: &lt;/strong&gt;Administration of the aqueous extract of &lt;em&gt;E. angolense &lt;/em&gt;bark to infected mice significantly inhibited parasite development (&lt;em&gt;p&lt;/em&gt; &amp;lt;0.001) with ED&lt;sub&gt;50&lt;/sub&gt; estimated at 25.32 mg/kg. The extract prevented animal from death, body weight loss, anaemia, leucocytosis, high transaminases (ALT and AST), high bilirubin, creatinine and MDA levels, oxidative stress and anatomical alteration in organs as compared to the malaria control.&lt;strong&gt; Conclusion:&lt;/strong&gt; The &lt;em&gt;E. angolense &lt;/em&gt;bark possesses antimalarial properties, supporting its use in traditional medicine to treat malaria.&lt;/p&gt;
</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">4</style></issue><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Original Article</style></work-type><section><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">687</style></section><auth-address><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p class=&quot;rtejustify&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Raceline Gounoue Kamkumo&lt;sup&gt;1,2,&lt;/sup&gt;*, Abel Narcisse Messi Betene&lt;sup&gt;1,2&lt;/sup&gt;, Patrick Valère Tsouh Fokou&lt;sup&gt;2,3&lt;/sup&gt;, Jean Hubert Donfack&lt;sup&gt;4&lt;/sup&gt;, Marius Jaurès Tsakem Nangap&lt;sup&gt;1,2&lt;/sup&gt;, Albertine Ngako&lt;sup&gt;1,2&lt;/sup&gt;, Roberto Fokou&lt;sup&gt;1,2&lt;/sup&gt;, Mariscal Brice Tchatat Tali&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;, Florence Ngueguim Tsofack&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, Théophile Dimo&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, Fabrice Fekam Boyom&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;rtejustify&quot;&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;Department of Animal Biology and Physiology, University of Yaoundé 1, P.O. Box 812, Yaounde, CAMEROON.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;rtejustify&quot;&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Yaoundé 1, P.O. Box 812, Yaoundé, CAMEROON.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;rtejustify&quot;&gt;&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt;Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Bamenda, P.O. Box 39, Bamenda, CAMEROON.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;rtejustify&quot;&gt;&lt;sup&gt;4&lt;/sup&gt;Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Dschang, P.O. Box 67, Dschang, CAMEROON.&lt;/p&gt;
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