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n-octacosanol is a normolipidemic aliphatic primary alcohol obtained from the plant Tinospora cordifolia Miers. In the present study, the plant stems were collected from five accessions namely Anniyalam, Chennai, Hassan, Vishakhapatnam and Bangalore between June and August. Later a simple HPTLC method has been established for determination of n-octacosanol in methanolic extracts of all these geographical sources using Toluene: Ethyl acetate: Formic acid (4.5:4.5:1 v/v) as mobile phase. Detection and quantification were performed by densitometric scanning at λ = 555 nm. The results of HPTLC estimation showed variation in n-octacosanol content in all the accessions. The extract from Anniyalam accession showed significantly higher amount of n-octacosanol (6.54%) and that of Vishakhapatnam showed the least (2.28%). Thus the present work is helpful in selecting Tinospora cordifolia yielding highest percentage of...
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Substituted Quinoxaline have received considerable attention during last two decades as they are endowed with variety of biological activities and have wide range of therapeutic properties. A literature survey indicates that quinoxaline derivatives possess different pharmacological and biological activities, of which the most potent is anti-inflammatory activity. In view of above literature survey, we thought to synthesize a novel substituted quinoxaline...
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The present study was undertaken to formulate directly compressible tablets to investigate the effect of different disintegrating agents such as maize starch and avicel PH101 on disintegration time, in vitro drug dissolution and their release properties. Tablets of paracetamol and the combination of paracetamol and diclofenac using maize starch and avicel PH 101 were prepared separately by direct compression method. The in vitro release of these formulations were studied at distilled water for one hour using the USP paddle method as specified in united states pharmacopeias for immediate release preparation. Significant differences were found among the drug release profile from different tablet formulations using different disintegrants. Formula No. 3 containing the combination of paracetamol and diclofenac using maize starch showed the lowest hardness and disintegrating time i.e. 3.99 Kg/cm2 and 7.08 minutes respectively, and the highest drug release i.e. 75.50% compared to other formulations. The influence of different disintegrants was evaluated by measuring the disintegration time and hardness of the tablets. The effect of starch & avicel on the...
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This study evaluated the in vitro antioxidant and cytotoxic potential of methanolic extract of the root of Calotropis procera (R. BR.). The Antioxidant activity of the extract was investigated by the In-vitro Anti-Oxidant activity (DDPH Scavenging activity) assays. The IC50 of the Calotropis procera studied by the above mention method was found below 100 μg/ml which indicates the potent antioxidant activity of the plant. The extract of the root of Calotropis procera also demonstrated a strong cytotoxic activity against brine shrimp nauplii with an LC50 value of 2.931...
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The present work attempted to identify and standardize the different phytochemical by modern analytical techniques and to summarize the UV, TLC, FTIR characters of the plants; Eugenia caryophyllus (clove), Acorus Calamus (vekhand), Myristica fragrans (Nutmeg) and Citrus aurantium(Orange peel) which ultimately results in compilation of analytical data for these crude drugs which are very much used in herbal cosmetics. The methanolic extracts of Clove, Acorus, Nutmeg, Orange peel were prepared by ultrasonic bath extraction method and labeled as DSC, DSA, DSN and DSO respectively for further studies. Preliminary pytochemical screening of extracts were also performed. Asarones were detected in Acorus extract by subjecting the TLC to UV light and observing blue fluorescence. Volatile oil was isolated from clove buds by using Clevenger’s apparatus which was subjected for the FTIR analysis, which indicates the peak for presence of phenol compound. For nutmeg and orange peel samples the presence of myristicine, elemicine in nutmeg extract was confirmed by Rf...
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