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Objective: Study to elucidate the relation between depression, gender and blood groups. Methods: The study was prepared on 279 medical students of IMTU, who have spent more than four months in the medical school. A Performa for testing depression scale was given to the students. Blood groups and gender were analyzed. Results: It was evident that few blood groups like A and O shown significant prevalence of mild depression and group AB with severe depression. Females shown a high frequency of mild depression and males demonstrated an elevated severe depressed condition. Conclusion: The present study shows that blood groups and gender and depression scales are...
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The term ‘transgenic plant’ is defined as the plants that are produced in the lab by artificial insertion of genes sometimes from the same species and sometimes entirely from the different kingdom. A major advantage of transgenic plant because of which it gains a lot of importance in today’s world is developing it for producing pharmaceutically useful compounds. Hence, they are acting as a natural bioreactor for producing therapeutic proteins and peptides in large amount. The present work deals with the investigation of producing a Human Neutrophil Peptide-1 (HNP-1) which is an antimicrobial peptide and commonly known as Defensin in Lycopersicum esculentum Mill. plant by Agrobacterium tumefaciens mediated genetic transformation technique. The cloning of HNP-1 was successfully done in a plant expression vector ‘pGreenI 0029 with 35S CaMV promoter’ by authors and described earlier. In this work we would like to describe transformation of pGreenI 0029 with HNP-1 gene and 35S CaMV promoter, inside Agrobacteium tumefaciens cells and then genetic transformation of Lycopersicum esculentum Mill.plant via recombinant Agrobacteium...
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The study is focused on developing a simple, rapid, validated High Performance Liquid Chromatographic (HPLC) method for Glimepiride Tablets from their dosage forms. The detection was carried out at 230 nm using Shimadzu UV – Visible detector HPLC system. The accuracy and precision were determined and validated statistically. The linearity was observed in the range of 15-120 µg/mL with a correlation coefficient of 0.999. The limit of detection and the limit of quantification were found to be 4 ng and 10 ng respectively. A Lichrosorb®(RP-18 column with a mobile phase consisting of acetonitrile – water – glacial acetic acid (550:450:0.6 v/v)) was used. The flow rate was 1 mL/min. The HPLC method is selective, precise and accurate and can be used for routine analysis of preparations in pharmaceutical industry quality control...
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Background: The hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis in asthmatic patients is influenced by many factors. Stress, cytokines and exogenous corticosteroids play an important role in regulating the HPA axis and thus affecting the adreno corticotrophic hormone (ACTH) and cortisol levels among these patients. It is well accepted that the HPA axis represents a major immune-regulatory system that plays an important role in balancing the immune response especially under stressful condition. We evaluated the serum cortisol and serum ACTH levels in Asthma patients of Hyderabad. Methods: Serum cortisol levels were measured by Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) using a commercially available kit (Diagnostic Systems Laboratories, Inc., Webster, Texas, USA). Serum ACTH levels were measured by ELISA using commercially available kit (Biomerica Inc., Newport Beach, CA, USA). Results were evaluated for determining the significance between patients and controls. Most of these patients were under various treatments. Results: The correlation between serum cortisol levels in asthmatics and controls was not found to be significant (p= 0.43). The correlation between the ACTH levels...
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Objectives: Transdermal drug delivery suggests several advantages and has been vastly investigated over last decades.Chemical enhancers improve the quantity of drug penetration through the skin. In this study, hydrophilic solvents have been used as enhancers to promote dermal penetration of albumin. Methods: 20 different formulations containing albumin and hydrophilic solvents were prepared. Transdermal absorption experiments for each formulation were performed using a diffusion cell and a slice of chicken skin as model at 32°C for 3 hours. Samples from the medium were withdrawn and analyzed for albumin concentration. Cumulative amounts of albumin were plotted for each formulation. Results: After3 hours, 6.8, 5.8, 69.0, 7.9, 11.1, 25.2, 32.0, 98.0, 21.3 and 74.3 mg of albumin were passed through the skin, using formulations containing deionized water (DW), acetic acid, ethyl acetate (EA), methanol, ethanol, 2-propanol, isopropyl alcohol (IPA), glycerol, ethylene glycol (EG) and propylene glycol (PG), respectively. Conclusion: PG, EA and glycerolcould act as enhancers for transdermal delivery of albumin. Such delivery was increased using 4 mL of them instead of...
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