Dr. Silas Adjei

Lecturer


Research Areas/Interests

Isolation of medicinal plant constituents Clinical studies of herbal medicinal products Standardisation and quality control of herbal products Qu...~more


Publications

      • Adjei, S., Amponsah, I. K., Ekuadzi, E., Hamilton, C., Gavrilovic, J., Dillon, O., Amr El-Demerdash, and & Asante-Kwatia, E. (2025). Assessment of wound healing properties of medicinal plants: The case of Berlinia confusa. Natural Product Communications20(1), 1934578X241311978.
      • Baah, K. A., Acheampong, A., Amponsah, I. K., Adjei, S., Jibira, Y., Nketia, R. I., Sarpong, L.M.& Kontoh, E. Q. (2024). Hydroethanol extract and triterpenoids of Senegalia ataxacantha show antiplasmodial activity and the compounds are predicted to inhibit parasite lactate dehydrogenase (pfLDH) as indicated by molecular docking studies. Scientific African26, e02455.
      • Boakye, A., Avor, D. D., Amponsah, I. K., Appaw, W. O., Owusu-Ansah, L., Adjei, S., Baah M.K. & Addotey, J. N. (2024). Quality Assessment of Tomato Paste Products on the Ghanaian Market: An Insight Into Their Possible Adulteration. International Journal of Food Science2024(1), 8285434.
      • Gyimah, L., Asante-Kwatia, E., Adjei, S., Owusu, F. A., Darko, F., Tabiri, E., & Mensah, A. Y. (2023). Pharmacognostic characterization, wound healing and toxicity assessment of the stem bark of Xylia evansii Hutch (Leguminosae). Heliyon9(11).
      • Amponsah, I.K., Boakye, A., Orman, E., Armah, F.A., Borquaye, L.S., Adjei Silas, Dwamena, Y.A., Baah, K.A. and Harley, B.K., (2022). Assessment of some quality parameters and chemometric-assisted FTIR spectral analysis of commercial powdered ginger products on the Ghanaian market. Heliyon8(3), p.e09150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09150

       

      • Asante-Kwatia, E., Adjei, Silas, Jibira, Y., Gyimah, L., Adjei-Hinneh, G., Amponsah, I.K. and Mensah, A.Y. (2021). Amphimas pterocarpoides harms.: An Evaluation of flavonoid and phenolic contents, wound healing, anthelmintic and antioxidant activities of the leaves and stem bark. Heliyon7(11), p.e08261.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e08261

       

      • Barfour, A.F., Mensah, A.Y., Asante-Kwatia, E., Danquah, C.A., Anokwah, D., Adjei, Silas, Baah, M.K. and Mensah, M.L. (2021). Antibacterial, Antibiofilm, and Efflux Pump Inhibitory Properties of the Crude Extract and Fractions from Acacia macrostachya Stem Bark. The Scientific World Journal2021. https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/5381993

       

      • Silas Adjei, Isaac Kingsley Amponsah, Samuel Oppong Bekoe, Benjamin Kingsley Harley, Kwesi Boadu Mensah, Abraham Yeboah Mensah, Michael Kwesi Baah, Gabriel Fosu-Mensah (2021). Fruits of Vitex doniana sweet: toxicity profile, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant activities, and quantification of one of its bioactive constituents oleanolic acid. Heliyon 7:e07910. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e07910

       

      • Philip Kobla Atchoglo, Isaac Kingsley  Amponsah, Patrick Valere Tsouh Fokou, Benjamin Kingsley Harley, Michael Kwesi Baah, Francis Ackah Armah, Silas Adjei (2021). Anti-mycobacterium ulcerans activity and pharmacognostic standardisation of Pycnanthus angolensis (Welw) Warb. Scientific African. 13 (2021) e00935

       

      • Ramos, G. F., Amponsah, I. K., Harley, B. K., Jibira, Y., Baah, M. K., Adjei, S., Armah, F. A., Mensah, A. Y. (2021). Triterpenoids mediate the antimicrobial, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory activities of the stem bark of Reissantia indicaJ Appl Pharm Sci, 11(05):039–048.

       

      • Amponsah, K. I., Ampofo K. E., Oppong Bekoe, S., Harley, K. B., Armah, A. F., Adjei, S., and Baah, K.M. (2020). Standardisation of Holarrhena floribunda (G. Don) Durand & Schinz: pharmacognostic evaluation and HPLC profiling of some of its steroidal alkaloids as chemical markers. International Journal of Research in Pharmaceutical Sciences, 11(SPL4), 2710-2725. https://doi.org/10.26452/ijrps.v11iSPL4.4545

       

      • K. Baah, A.Y. Mensah, E. Asante-Kwatia, I.K. Amponsah, A.D. Forkuo, B.K. Harley and S. Adjei (2020). In Vivo Antiplasmodial Activity of Different Solvent Extracts of Myrianthus libericus Stem Bark and Its Constituents in Plasmodium berghei-Infected Mice. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

       

      • Adjei, P. Entsua-Mensah, I.K. Amponsah, M.K. Baah, N.A.A. Kwakye and N.Y.K. AddaeKyereme (2020). Pharmacognostic and physicochemical studies of the leaves of Hoslundia opposita Vahl (Lamiaceae). Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry 2020; 9(5): 2996-3001

     


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