<?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%">Emmanuel Kofi Kumatia</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stephen Antwi</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Henry Brew-Daniels</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Alfred Ampoma Appiah</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Augustine Ocloo</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">In vivo Comparative Anti-Inflammatory and Analgesic Activities of Root Bark, Stem and Leaf Extracts of Capparis erythrocarpus (Capparaceae)</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%">Hot plate</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Oedema</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pain</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Phytochemical constituents</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Writhing assay</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2019</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">May 2019</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">11</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">515-520</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;Introduction: &lt;/strong&gt;The root bark powder of the medicinal plant &lt;em&gt;Capparis erythrocarpus &lt;/em&gt;is used at the Centre for Plant Medicine Research (In Ghana) against inflammatory pain disorders. The whole plant is destroyed to obtain the root bark which constitutes only 11.1 % of the plant. Hence, the plant is going extinct. We therefore sought to evaluate anti-inflammatory and analgesic activities of the root bark, stem and leaf of &lt;em&gt;C. erythrocarpus&lt;/em&gt; in order to explore them as substitute(s) anti-inflammatory and analgesic agent to the root bark. &lt;strong&gt;Methods:&lt;/strong&gt; Carrageenan induced paw oedema assay was used to evaluate anti-inflammatory activity. Hot plate and acetic acid induced writhing assays were employed to ascertain analgesic activity. &lt;strong&gt;Results:&lt;/strong&gt; The extracts of the root bark (CRB) and leaf (CL) produced significant (&lt;em&gt;p&lt;/em&gt;&amp;lt;0.05) antiinflammatory activity of 48.93 and 37.42 % at 50 and 200 mg/kg p.o. respectively whereas the stem extract (CS) was inactive. Moreover, the extracts produced significant (&lt;em&gt;p&lt;/em&gt;&amp;lt;0.05) analgesic activity. The analgesic activity (178.20 – 248.70 %) of the extracts were higher than that of morphine (136.70%) at 5 mg/kg i.m. in the hot plate assay. CS (200 mg/kg p.o.) produced the highest analgesic activity (54.61%) among the extracts and diclofenac sodium (41.15%) at 5 mg/kg p.o. in the writhing assay. &lt;strong&gt;Conclusion:&lt;/strong&gt; These results indicates that the leaf of &lt;em&gt;C. erythrocarpus &lt;/em&gt;can be substituted for the root as analgesic and anti-inflammatory agent. Whiles, the stem can also be used as analgesic agent. This will save the plant from extinction.&lt;/p&gt;
</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></issue><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Original Article</style></work-type><section><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">515</style></section><auth-address><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p class=&quot;rtejustify&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Emmanuel Kofi Kumatia&lt;sup&gt;1,*&lt;/sup&gt;, Stephen Antwi&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;, Henry Brew-Daniels&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, Alfred Ampomah Appiah&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, Augustine Ocloo&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 Phytochemistry, Centre for Plant Medicine Research, Mampong-Akwapim, GHANA.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;rtejustify&quot;&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;Department of Pharmacology, Centre for Plant Medicine Research, Mampong-Akwapim, GHANA.&lt;/p&gt;
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