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Herbal products with extended treatment regimens and inadequate dosing information are widely used to treat malaria in Ghana. This study set out to determine the <jats:italic>in vitro<\/jats:italic> activity of selected herbal extracts on the development of asexual and sexual stage malaria parasites. <jats:italic>Methods<\/jats:italic>. The 72-hour SYBR Green 1-based <jats:italic>in vitro<\/jats:italic> drug assay was used to determine the asexual parasite growth inhibitory effects exhibited by aqueous extracts of <jats:italic>Alchornea cordifolia<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Polyalthia longifolia<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Moringa oleifera<\/jats:italic>, and <jats:italic>Mangifera indica<\/jats:italic> on the NF54, CamWT_C580Y, and IPC 4912 strains of <jats:italic>Plasmodium falciparum<\/jats:italic>. The effects of exposure of asexual and early-stage NF54 gametocytes to varying concentrations of the aqueous herbal extracts were assessed by microscopy after 7 days of continuous culturing in the presence of the herbal extract. Qualitative and quantitative phytochemical screening were also performed on the herbal extracts. <jats:italic>Results<\/jats:italic>. In the SYBR Green 1 assay, aqueous extracts of <jats:italic>Alchornea cordifolia<\/jats:italic> exhibited moderate (IC<jats:sub>50<\/jats:sub> of 5.8, 17.4, and 15.8\u2009<jats:italic>\u03bc<\/jats:italic>g\/ml) and <jats:italic>Mangifera indica<\/jats:italic> exhibited low (IC<jats:sub>50<\/jats:sub> of 65.4, 96.7, and 81.7\u2009<jats:italic>\u03bc<\/jats:italic>g\/ml) activities against the NF54, Cam WT_C580Y, and IPC 4912 parasites, respectively, whilst <jats:italic>Polyalthia longifolia<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>Moringa oleifera<\/jats:italic> were inactive. Long-term treatment of NF54 parasites with 1\u2009mg\/ml of <jats:italic>Polyalthia longifolia<\/jats:italic> produced the highest densities of gametocytes and the least (56%) inhibition of asexual parasites on Day 7. Long-term treatment of NF54 parasites with 10\u2009<jats:italic>\u03bc<\/jats:italic>g\/ml <jats:italic>Alchornea cordifolia<\/jats:italic> resulted in complete parasite (asexual and gametocyte) clearance on Day 7. <jats:italic>Conclusions. Alchornea cordifolia<\/jats:italic> exhibited a \u2018moderate\u2019 activity against the three parasites tested in the 72-hour SYBR Green 1 assay and also effectively cleared both asexual parasites and gametocytes. Long-term treatment of malaria parasites with herbal extracts mimics a treatment regimen and should be used to determine the antimalarial properties of herbal extracts.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1155\/2020\/5041919","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,5,20]],"date-time":"2020-05-20T23:34:57Z","timestamp":1590017697000},"page":"1-8","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":24,"title":["The <i>In Vitro<\/i> Antiplasmodial Activities of Aqueous Extracts of Selected Ghanaian Herbal Plants"],"prefix":"10.1155","volume":"2020","author":[{"given":"Elizabeth","family":"Cudjoe","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana"},{"name":"Department of Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Dickson","family":"Donu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Noguchi Memorial Institute for 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