John Ahenkorah

RESEARCH PROJECT COMPLETED (WITHIN PAST 5 YEARS):

1. The Effect of Task-Oriented Circuit Training on Physical Fitness of Stroke Survivors.
2. Voluntary ingestion of natural cocoa extenuated damage in rat with experimentally induced chronic alcoholic toxicity
3. Natural cocoa ingestion reduced Liver damage in mice infected with Plasmodium berghei (NK65).
4. Improved method of producing satisfactory sections of whole eyeball by routine histology
5. Comparative characteristics of black and grey chest and selected facial hairs in negroid males

ON-GOING RESEARCH PROJECTS

1. Does Natural Cocoa ingestion affect renal microstructure after Gentamicin induced acute kidney injury?
2. Light microscopic study of Indigenous Ghanaian female scalp hair with respect to styling procedures
3. Effect of type 2 Diabetes on the cytoarchitecture of the human placenta: A stereological study at the light microscopy level

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS:

Full papers in peer-reviewed journals

1. Ahenkorah, J., Hottor, B., Addai, F.K. (2016):  Morphological variations and correlates of the human umbilical cord in Ghana. Manuscript accepted for publication in Ghana Journal of Allied Health Sciences.
2. Frimpong, E., Antwi-Boasiako, C., Ababio, E., Ahenkorah, J and Olawal, O.A. (2016): The Effect of Task-Oriented Circuit Training on Physical Fitness of Stroke Survivors. Journal of Exercise Science & Physiotherapy. In Press
3. Aboagye, B., Ahenkorah, J., Hottor,  B., Addai,  F. K. (2014): "Comparative characteristics of black and grey chest and selected facial hairs in negroid males" Publication in  The Internet Journal of Biological Anthropology. 2014 Volume 7 Number 1  Epub 14 pages. [On line]http://ispub.com/IJBA/7/1/14710
4. Benjamin Arko-Boham, John Ahenkorah, Bismarck Afedo Hottor, Esther Dennis, & Frederick Kwaku Addai (2014): Improved method of producing satisfactory sections of whole eyeball by routine histology. Microsc, Res. Tech. 77: 138-142
5. Eric Aidoo, Frederick  K. Addai, John Ahenkorah, Bismarck Hottor, Kwesi Agyei Bugyei & Ben A. Gyan. (2012): Natural cocoa ingestion reduced liver damage in mice infected with plasmodium berghei (NK65). Research and Reports in tropical medicine. 3, 107-116
6. Godwin Sokpor, Frederick kwaku Addai, Richard Kwasi Gyasi, Kwesi Agyei Bugyei, John Ahenkorah & Bismarck Hottor. (2012): Voluntary ingestion of natural cocoa extenuated damage in rat with experimentally induced chronic alcoholic toxicity. Functional Foods in Health and disease. 2(5):166-187
7. Hottor, B., Bosio, P., Waugh, J., Diggle, P.J., Ahenkorah, J. & Ockleford, C.D. (2010). Variations in composition of the intervillous space lining in term placentas of mothers with pre-eclampsia. Placenta. 31, 409-417.
8. Ahenkorah, J., Hottor, B., Byrne, S., Bosio, P. & Ockleford, C.D. (2009). Immunofluorescence confocal laser scanning microscopy and immuno-electron microscopic identification of keratins in human maternofetal interaction zone.
9.       J Cell Mol Med. 13(4): 735-748.
10. Ahenkorah,  J. , Hottor, B. A., Smith, K. Byrne,  S. Setalo, G., Halidi, N., Brouwers,  B., Frankenne,  F. & Ockleford, C.D. (2008).  Morphological Methods. 2^nd Embryo Implantation Control (EMBIC) Summer School Handbook “Molecular Methods of Implantation” Proceedings of the 2^nd EMBIC Summer School Eds Julia Szerkes Bartho, Gerard Chaouat and Patricia Joseph-Mathieu,  pp813-860. Inserm Transfert Paris.
11. Byrne, S., Ahenkorah, J., Hottor, B., Lockwood, C. & Ockleford, C.D. (2007). Immuno-electron microscopic localisation of caveolin 1 in human placenta. Immunobiology. 212, 39-46.