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Urolithiasis, also called kidney stone, was caused by a missense mutation in the adenine phosphoribosyl transferase enzyme encoded by the APRT gene. This gene was present in human chromosome 16. In this paper, a comparative study of the effectiveness of six ligands reported in Synadenium grantii was analyzed by docking approach. For this purpose, the effective six ligands that were present in Synedenium grantii were selected, downloaded, and docked with APRT. The interactions of these ligands with APRT were analyzed by docking by using Autodock vina. The selected six ligands were phorbol ester, terpene, flavonoid, tannin, coumarin, and anthraquinone. All these ligands have anti-urolithiatic activity and are used to treat urolithiasis. A docking study by AutoDock vina reveals the interacting amino acid residues that have not been reported yet. Based on interactions of different ligands with APRT, our analysis shows that flavonoid was most effective, followed by terpene, phorbol ester, tannin and coumarin. The results show that anthraquinone was the least effective. The docking study performed by Autodock vina...
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The main objective of the current study was to see whether SG peel methanolic extract had antidiabetic and hepatoprotective results in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. Streptozotocin was administered intraperitoneally to rats to trigger diabetes. When rats had an elevated blood sugar level three days after acquiring streptozotocin, it was determined that they were diabetic. Diabetic rats were given pre-determined doses of a methanolic extract of SG. Our experimental study took 28 days to complete. Rats were fasted overnight for an oral glucose tolerance test, and antioxidant parameters were measured. Rats were euthanized after 28 days to perform histopathological tests. One of the three doses of methanolic extract of SG peels (50, 100 and 200 mg/kg) showed nearly identical findings to Glibenclamide (2.5 mg/kg). After administering sponge gourd peel extract doses, blood glucose levels were found to be depleted. The positive impact on HOMA-IR and HOMA- β, plasma insulin levels, glycated haemoglobin, and several other variables. Furthermore, antioxidant parameters, including GLUT2 and SGLT1, significantly improved in diabetic rats. Finally, in Streptozotocin-induced...
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The present study evaluated the antibacterial and antifungal activities of the medicinal plant Bauhinia vahlii. The antibacterial and antifungal activities of vacuum dried ethanol extract of the stem and leaves of Bauhinia vahlii (EEBVS and EEBVL) were performed using the Disc diffusion method. The antibacterial and antifungal activities recorded significant effects against five bacterial strains, including Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus subtilis, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Salmonella typhi and two fungal strains, including Candida albicans and Aspergillus niger. The ethanol extracts of Bauhinia vahlii stem and leaves were showed the significant antibacterial effect of different bacterial strains and antifungal activity of fungal strains in the ethanol extract of stem (14 mm) but more activity observed in the ethanol extract of leaves (17 mm) in the Escherichia coli bacterial strain against different bacterial strains as compared to standard drug Amikacin (19 mm) whereas more potent in ethanol extracts of leaves (19 mm) in the fungal strain Candida albicans as compared to standard drug fluconazole (21 mm) as observed by zones of inhibitions...
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The current study aims to develop a reversed-phase HPLC method for quantifying the active substances of Fenticonazole Nitrate (FENTI), Tinidazole (TINI) and Lidocaine base (LIDO) simultaneously and to validate the proposed method for the intended analytical application in the bulk and pharmaceutical dosage form by ICH guidelines. In this work, the behaviour of f FENTI, TINI and LIDO was studied under various degradative conditions, and a stability-indicating LC method was developed to separate the degradation products and quantify the drug in their presence. The mobile phase Phosphate buffering agent: Methanol: Acetonitrile (60:30:10; v: v: v), Hypersil Phenyl type silica column, with flow rate 1.0ml, detection wavelength 210nm, column temperature at 40ºC and Methanolis used as diluents. System Suitability, Specificity, Precision, Linearity, Accuracy, and Robustness parameters were all validated. The system suitability parameters were investigated by injecting the standard six times, and the results were well below the acceptance threshold. Linearity parameter was investigated at levels ranging from 80% to 120%, with a r2 value of 0.999 discovered. The formulation...
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The preparation of metal-based Indian traditional drugs involves the conversion of pure metal into its therapeutically effective form. “Tamra Bhasma” (calcined copper) is one such herbometallic preparation used for various medical conditions like anaemia, obesity, and skin disease, disorders of the liver and spleen, hyper-acidity, rhinitis, hemorrhoids. A detailed evaluation of the changes occurring during each step of pharmaceutical processing, factors affecting the type of Puta and its physicochemical characterization has been examined in the present work. The pharmaceutical preparation of “Tamra Bhasma” (TB) includes quenching in liquid media, then boiling in liquid, followed by calcination and finally to remove the leftover blemishes, potentiation is carried out. Traditional Puta (the process of controlled heating and cooling) system has been used for its calcinations and Kajjali and Gandhaka have been used as media for calcinations of Tamra. TB has been subjected to different physicochemical characterization using XRD and SEM-EDXA. The result suggests that Bhasma Parikshas (confirmatory tests) are the most reliable criteria to authenticate the formation of a good quality...
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