Lecturer, Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.

Email: pkmante.pharm@knust.edu.gh; mantepk@yahoo.co.uk

Cell Phone: 0264850206

Dr. Priscilla Kolibea Mante is a lecturer in the Department of Pharmacology at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical sciences, College of Health Sciences, KNUST. She is a registered pharmacist and a member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana (PSGh) and West African Society for Pharmacology (WASP/SOAP).

She holds a B.Pharm (Hons) and a Phd (Pharmacology) Degree from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. She had her senior secondary education at Wesley Girls’ High School, Cape Coast, Ghana.

Dr. Mante’s research interests include evaluation of herbal medicines for the treatment of epilepsy, anxiety, depression and pain.

Publications:

• Mante, P.K., Woode, E., Kukuia, K.K.E., Adongo, D.W., Ameyaw, E.O. (2015). Antidepressant-like properties of Antiaris toxicaria aqueous extract. Int J Basic Clin Pharmacol.; 4(1): 111-120.
• Adongo, D.W., Mante, P.K., Woode, E., Ameyaw, E.O.,Kukuia, K.K.E. (2015). Effects of hyrdroethanolic leaf extract of Pseudospondias microcarpa (A. Rich.) Engl. (Anacardiaceae) on the central nervous system in mice. The Journal of Phytopharmacology; 3(6): 410-417
• Kukuia, K.K.E, Mante P.K., Woode, E., Ameyaw , E.O. and Adongo, D. W. (2014). Antidepressant Effect of Mallotus oppositifolius In Acute Murine Models. ISRN Pharmacology, vol. 2014, Article ID 324063, 12 pages, 2014. Doi: 10.1155/2014/324063
• Biney, R. P., Boakye-Gyasi, E., Mante, P.K., Kukuia, K. E., Woode, E. (2014). Neuropharmacological Effects of Ethanolic Fruit extract of Xylopia aethiopica and xylopic acid (a kaurene diterpene) in mice, West African Journal of Pharmacy 25(1) 106-117
• Mante P.K., Adongo, D.W., Woode, E., Kukuia, K.K.E., Ameyaw, E.O. (2013). Anticonvulsant Effect of Antiaris toxicaria(Pers.) Lesch. (Moraceae) Aqueous Extract in Rodents. ISRN Pharmacology, 2013:9.
• Mante, P.K., Adongo, D.W., Kukuia, K.K.E, Ameyaw, E.O. and Woode, E. (2012). Neuropharmacological assessment of an aqueous bark extract of Antiaris toxicaria (Pers.) Lesch. (moraceae) in rodents. Am. J. Pharmacol. Toxicol., 7: 123-134.
• Kukuia, K.K.E., Ameyaw, E.O., Mante, P. K., Adongo, D.W., Woode, E. (2012) Screening of Central Effects of the Leaves of Mallotus oppositifolius (Geiseler) Mull. Arg. in Mice Pharmacologia 3 (12): 683-692.