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Peroxidase enzyme plays an important role in pharmaceutical, Industrial and various research laboratories. This enzyme can be purified by various different method. Our research trend was to purify the enzyme in a convenient and easy way. For this purpose a new affinity column was prepare by immobilizing PABA to N-HydroxySuccinamaideagarose gel. The presence of peroxidase was investigated on various Bangladeshi vegetables, such as, daikon, cabbage, cauliflower, tomato and sweet potato. Based on a previous screening experiment, daikon contains the highest amount of peroxidase. The juice of daikon was first extracted by tincture press and subjected to ammonium sulphate precipitation. The precipitate was dissolved in 25 mM phosphate buffer, pH7.4 containing 500 mMNaCl, 1 mM MnCl2 and 1 mM CaCl2. The crude extract thus obtained was subjected to an inhibitor affinity chromatography (IAC) method. Here, we have taken advantage of the affinity of peroxidase toward p-aminobenzoic acid hydrazide (PABAH) and subsequent recovery of the peroxidase by a known destabilizing agent ascorbic acid. The partially purified sample was applied to the...
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The acaricidal activity of leaf extracts of Annona squamosa, Azadirachta indica and Calotropis procera were tested against the cattle ticks under in vivo condition. Plants were extracted with methanol and water and the extracts were tested against the cattle ticks under in vivo condition. The aqueous and alcoholic extracts of A. indica showed maximum mortality rate of ticks followed by A. squamosa and C. procera when tested individually. In combination of plant extracts, hot water extracts of dried leaf powder showed 100% mortality of ticks on 5th day whereas ethanol and methanol extracts showed 83% and 80% of mortality respectively. Based on the above experimental results, it is confirmed that the selected plant materials possess more acaricidal activity against cattle ticks. Plant extracts in combinations are more effective than single drug...
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The present study report deals with the medicinal plants used by the irular tribal people of Coimbatore against pyogenic infections. Five different plants like Abutilon indicum, Datura metel, Lantana Camaro, Tridax procumbens and Leucas aspera were collected and their antimicrobial activity were tested against bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pyogenes, Bacillus anthracis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Escherichia coli, Shigella dysenteriae, Salmonella typhi, Klebsiella pneumonia, Proteus vulgaris and fungi such as Aspergillus niger, Mucor rouxii, Fusarium solani, and Penicillium chrysogenum. All the plants showed antimicrobial activity. Among these Abutilon indicum, Datura metel, Lantana Camaro showed good zone of inhibition against the test organisms. Datura metel showed high zone of inhibition. The extracts of Datura metel showed lowest Minimal inhibitory concentration. Phytochemical analysis showed the presence of alkaloids, flavonoids, saponins and...
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The present study a simple, accurate, precise and cost effective UV-Visible spectrophotometric method for development and validation of folic acid as vitamin. folic acid is a water soluble vitamin, so solvent used throughout the experiment was chloroform, butanol,0.1N NaoH, water .the absorption maxima of drug was found at 250nm . Beer’s law was obeyed in the range of 5ppm-30ppm. The developed method was successfully validated with respect to linearity, accuracy and precision. The method was validated and shown linearity in mentioned concentration. The percentage relative standard deviation of inter-day and intra-day precision range 45.15%. Hence proposed method was precise, accurate and cost effective, simple and rapid. This validated method can be applicable for quantitative determination of the titled drug with respect to assay for solid dosage...
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Present paper explores the preparation of Nanostructured Lipid Carriers (NLCs) loaded with the anticancer agent docetaxel trihydrate, with potential for targeted anticancer drug delivery. NLCs were prepared using Melt Emulsification Solvent Evaporation – Sonication method. The procedure adopted for preparation was optimized for obtaining NLCs with high entrapment efficiency for the drug and particle size in suitable range, using Quality by Design (QbD) approach employing Design-Expert® software. NLCs were prepared using solid lipids (stearylamine and glycerylmonostearate) and liquid lipids (tocopheryl acetate) with the aid of PhospholiponS100® as emulsifier and LutrolF68® as stabilizer. Independent variables selected were {total lipid to drug ratio} (A) and {solid lipids to liquid lipid ratio} (B). Total lipid to drug ratio (A) was fixed at four levels whereas solid lipid to liquid lipid ratio (B) was fixed at three levels. Optimization batches were prepared in duplicates and entrapment efficiency and mean particle size of each batch was estimated and data analyzed for statistical significance through ANOVA and by response surface and contour plots. The optimized...
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