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Ofloxacin is an antibacterial agent used to treat infections. It is extremely bitter in taste and taste should be masked to formulate it in a palatable form. The purpose of present research work was to formulate tasteless complexes of ofloxacin with indion 204 ion exchange resin. The drug loading onto ion-exchange resin was optimized for mixing time, activation, effect of pH, mode of mixing, ratio of drug: resin and temperature. The resinate was evaluated for taste masking and in vitro drug release. DSC analysis study supported complex formation. ofloxacin- indion 204 complex of ratio 1:1.5 was developed into orodispersible tablet using different superdisintegrants with varying concentration and was evaluated for weight variation, hardness, friability, wetting time, water absorption ratio, content uniformity, disintegration time and dissolution and was found superior over conventional formulation. The F5 batch with disintegration time 19.33 Sec ±3.78 and dissolution within 45 minutes 89.642±2.20 was selected as optimized formulation. By an appropriate selection and combination of excipients, it was possible to obtain orodispersible and taste masked...
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Rapid, simple, sensitive and accurate spectrophotometric methods have been developed for the determination of Trimetazidine in pure and pharmaceutical formulations. Various methods were developed for estimation of trimetazidine .but a simple extractive photometric method using has not been developed .This method is based on the formation of chloroform soluble ion pair complex of Trimetazidine with bromothymol blue (BTB) in buffer of pH 5.0 with absorption maximum at 409nm. Reaction conditions were optimised to obtain the maximum colour intensity. The absorbance was found to increase linearly with increase in concentration of Trimetazidine. Calibration graph was plotted and the correlation coefficient was found to be 0.998.Beer’s law was obeyed in the concentration range of 1- 7 µg/ml with molar absorptivity of 30*10^3 l /mol /cm .Various analytical parameters have been evaluated and the results have been validated by statistical data. This method has been successfully applied for the assay of drug in pharmaceutical formulations. No interference was observed from common pharmaceutical adjuvants.The proposed method is simple, accurate and suitable for quality...
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The aim of this research is to observe the cytotoxic activities of methanolic crude extracts of Ocimum sanctum (Family: Lamiaceae). The leaves of Ocimum sanctum was extracted with organic solvent (methanol) and the extracts were fractionated by using solvent-solvent partition. The n-hexane, ethyl acetate, and chloroform soluble fractions of methanolic crude extract of Ocimum sanctum were screened for cytotoxic activity using brine shrimp lethality bioassay. A reputed cytotoxic agent, vincristine sulphate was used as a positive control. From the results of the brine shrimp lethality bioassay it was well predicted that n-hexane, ethyl acetate, and chloroform soluble fractions of methanolic crude extracts possess cytotoxic principles (LC50 4.36 mg/mL, LC50 5.37 mg/mL and LC50 10.00 mg/mL respectively) comparison with positive control, vincristine sulphate (LC50 0.563...
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The present investigation is mainly on the synthesis, characterization and anti-microbial screening of certain new curcuminoid analogues containing imidazole, pyrrole and thiophene rings and their metal complexes. The ability of such heterocyclic β-dicarbonyl compounds and their metal ions to influence many of complex reaction upon which the vital processes of micro-organisms depends is the motivation behind the work. A series of 5- hetero aryl-1-phenyl-4-pentene-1,3-diones(1a-c) and their Cu (II), Ni (II) complexes of ML2 stoichiometry were synthesized and characterized by UV, IR, mass and 1H NMR spectroscopies. Analytical and spectral data suggest neutral bidentate coordination for unsaturated diketone with metals. Anti-microbial screening was carried out by using Kirby-Bauer disc plate method. All the ligands and their metal complexes showed significant anti-microbial action. Further complexation; seem to augment the antimicrobial activity of the...
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Tinospora crispa, a plant belonging to the family of Menispermaceae is a well-known traditional medicinal plant used in Bangladesh. The methanolic extracts of stems of the plantwere evaluated for their thrombolytic and preliminary cytotoxic activities. The thrombolytic activity was evaluated using the in vitro clot lysis model while while the screening of cytotoxic activity was done using brine shrimp lethality bioassay. Different concentrations of stem extract were made in isotonic saline (2.5, 5, 10 and 20 mg/ml) and added to pre-clotted human blood (n=13) and the clot lysis activity was determined following 90 minute incubation at 37º C. The results showed that T. crispa stem extract induced mild to moderate (14.81- 25.73%) and significant (p <0.001) clot lysis activity whereas the standard Streptokinase (30,000 I.U.) evoked a significant (p < 0.001) clot lysis activity (50.1%). In Brine shrimp lethality bioassay, the LC50 values of methanolic crude extract and its pet ether, chloroform and aqueous fractions were found to be 6.43, 0.8. 4.58 and 7.46 mg/ml respectively which were comparable...
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