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Background: The rapid development of new technology, and especially the Internet and other related communication systems, has provided new possibilities for searching any information that can be used for self-medication, also it seems that medical students having proper knowledge of medicine are very much involve in self-medication. This study therefore, intended to evaluate the knowledge, attitude, practice, and associated factors on SM among the medical students at government medical college, Almora. Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted on the students of phase II and phase 3 part I in the government medical college, Almora from 27th May 2024 to 7th June 2024. The data was collected through questionnaire circulated to concerned batch students via Google link. Results: A total 197 students were enrolled in the study, out of them, 101 were males while 96 were females. It was found that 78.7% of them, utilised self-medication in past 6 month. It was found that they had good knowledge regarding self- medication and its adverse effect. It was found that...
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Parasitic worms live in and feed in living hosts. They receive nourishment and protection while disrupting their hosts ability to absorb nutrients. The macroparasites called helminths, causes Helminthiasis. In India, the overall prevalence rates range from 12.5% to 66%. About 50% of the urban population and 68% of the rural population in India is affected. According to WHO, just few medications are consistently utilized for the treatment of these parasite diseases, these include albendazole, mebendazole, piperazine thiabendazole and levamisole. The resistance of helminths to drugs poses health complications to both man and animals which increased the demand for the use of herbal drugs. The present study was carried out to evaluate anthelmintic activity of leaves of Trachyspermum ammi and Desmodium gangeticum. Earthworms (Eisenia fetida) were chosen for studying anthelmintic activity as they have resemblance to intestinal round worms. The earthworms were exposed to series of concentrations 100mg/ml, 200mg/ml, 300mg/ml, 500mg/ml, 1000mg/ml of leaf extracts. Albendazole is used as a standard drug. Results revealed that a dose dependent decrease of paralysis time and death...
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The biological effects of transition metal complexes that include a wide range of ligands are distinguishable from one another. In an effort to produce a novel metal (II) complexes the conventional reflux method has been used to the interaction of two ligands, N-(2H-benzo[d] [1,2,3] triazol-2-yl)-1-(4-nitrophenyl) ethanimine as L1 and an amino acid Alanine as L2 with freshly produced Zinc, Nickel, Manganese chloride’s solution in a 1:1:1 molar ratio. In order to characterize the ligand and metal (II) complexes that have been synthesized, several approaches such as elemental analysis, molecular weight analysis, thermal analysis and spectroscopic analysis are used. A comparison was made between the antibacterial activity of all of the compounds that were created and that of Streptomycin, Ciprofloxacin and Nystatin. The compounds were tested against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria as well as a variety of fungal strains. The insecticidal activity of each compound was evaluated against Plodia interpunctella and the findings revealed that the compounds exhibited promising...
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Coagulase negative Staphylococcus, always regarded as nonpathogenic common commensal of skin and mucous membrane, are emerging as ubiquitous endemic nosocomial and oppurtunistic pathogens in recent times. They usually are considered as culture contaminants, thus left untreated which lead to their increased pathogenic potential. Methicillin resistance in Coagulase negative Staphylococcus is of significant concern as these strains are also multi drug resistant. The purpose of this study was to estimate the frequency of Methicillin resistance in CoNS in clinical samples and determine their biofilm producing ability and in-vitro antimicrobial susceptibility. A total of 2240 various clinical samples like urine, pus, blood, swabs received during one year period from January to December 2023 were processed in clinical laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Andhra Medical College, King George Hospital, Visakhapatnam. CoNS were isolated and identified by biochemical reactions and methicillin resistant strains identified by cefoxitin and oxacillin disc diffusion method and tested for biofilm production by Congo red agar and tissue culture plate method. Antimicrobial susceptibility done by conventional Kirby Bauer disk diffusion...
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The current study reports to validate a stability indicating RP-HPLC method for estimation of mitapivat in bulk, pharmaceutical formulations and FD characterization by using MS method. The chromatographic separation was accomplished on Waters X-Bridge phenyl column (150× 4.6mm, 3.5µm). With the mobile phase consisting of acetonitrile and 0.1% OPA (80ː20v/v) at a flow rate of 1ml/min. The eluents were monitored by UV detector at 234nm. The developed liquid chromatographic method was validated with respect to accuracy, precision, linearity, robustness, range, limit of detection (LOD), limit of quantification (LOQ). The drug was subjected to various stress conditions such as acid, alkali, peroxide, reduction, photolytic, hydrolysis and thermal degradation. Among all the stress condition 5degradation products were obtained they were DP-1, Dp-2, Dp-3, Dp-4, Dp-5. They were subjected to mass characterization. The obtained structures were subjected to in-silico studies using Swiss ADME, pk CSM web server, protox2. The SWISS ADME web server and pk CSM web server were used for the prediction of pharmacokinetic properties and toxicity of the drug and...
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