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An unusual type of the long-lasting pyelonephritis demonstrating a long-lasting granulomatous disease resulting in a non-functional kidney in the patient is generally linked with xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis. The name itself suggests this involves a granulomatous progression that is chronic, due to a chronic or sub-acute infection in the patient inciting a chronic but incomplete immune reaction in the individual. Different bacteria are generally known to be identified, but the most commonly associated species are Escherichia coli and Proteus mirabilis. Clinical presentation of the patient suffering from the disease is typically unclear, consisting of symptoms like malaise, loss of weight and low-grade fever and loss of appetite. Blood in the urine (hematuria) and flank pain are generally presented in the patients with the disease. Urinary tract symptoms may not be present always, but pus in the urine and positive urinary cultures are present in many of the cases of the patients (95 and 60% respectively). The disease finally results in the replacement of the kidney by a mass of reactive tissue,...
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The synergistic activity among the monoterpene (S)-cis-Verbenol and the antibiotics Amoxicillin and Gentamicin were evaluated against a sensitive and a resistant strain of Staphylococcus aureus, is the last one also resistant to methicillin (MRSA). The combinations were evaluated by the checkerboard method. The combinations of both antibiotics with the terpene showed synergic effects for the MRSA strain, whereas for the sensitive strain one combination showed synergy with amoxicillin and additionally one combination showed the additive effect with Gentamicin. To confirm the observed results, the combination that had the lowest concentration of Amoxicillin and the monoterpene were assayed by the time-kill curve method. An even lower concentration of the terpene that did not show cytotoxicity against human cells was also assayed. The results obtained confirmed those of the checkerboard method and synergy was also observed for the non-cytotoxic concentration of (S)-cis-Verbenol analyzed. This opens interesting possibilities about the use of purely natural products in combination with antibiotics to treat infections produced by sensitive and resistant...
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Extracellular lipases are ubiquitous in occurrence and are essential for various applications such as organic synthesis, hydrolysis of fats and oils, modification of fats, flavor enhancement in food processing, resolution of racemic mixtures and chemical analysis. In the present study, an attempt was made to screen and characterize potent extracellular lipase producing bacteria from the pond water of Dakshina Kashi Kshetra, Antharagange, Vibhuthipura Village, Kolar Taluk, and Kolar District, Karnataka, India. Based on the ability to produce extracellular lipase the isolate was selected and identified through 16S rRNA sequencing as Acinetobacter...
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An accurate and precise HPLC method was developed and validated for simultaneous determination of Levocetirizine dihydrochloride, Phenylephrine hydrochloride and Paracetamol in syrup formulations. The separation between Levocetirizine dihydrochloride, Phenylephrine hydrochloride, and Paracetamol was achieved within 20 min using an L1 column of 100 × 4.6 mm, 3 µ dimension using gradient programme and detector wavelength 215 nm. The mobile phase solution A is a buffer solution of 0.015 Molar 1-octane sulphonic acid sodium salt adjusted pH 3.4 with orthophosphoric acid and mobile phase solution B is Acetonitrile. The Method was validated as per ICH guideline for parameters like Specificity, Precision, Accuracy, solution stability, filter compatibility, and robustness. Accuracy for Levocetirizine dihydrochloride, Phenylephrine hydrochloride, and Paracetamol lies between 97.0 to 103.0%. The proposed method can be used for quality control assay of Levocetirizine dihydrochloride, Phenylephrine hydrochloride and Paracetamol in...
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Different types of excipients were compared, in terms of their effect in (oral disintegrated tablets-ODTs) to optimize drug delivery and manufacturability. Therefore, the influence of excipients on the quality of ODTs was investigated by formulating and evaluate ODTs using an equal dose of water-soluble Baclofen (B) and poorly water-soluble Meloxicam (M) as model drugs. ODTs of both drugs were prepared using nine different co-process excipients for (B1-B9) and (M1-M9) formula (Pharmaburst®, Ludiflash®, F-melt®, Prosolv HD 90®, Prosolv SMCC 5O®, Prosolv ODT G2®, ProsolvEASYtab SP®, ProsolvEASYtab Nutra®, Lactose microfine), respectively by direct compression method. The prepared ODTs were evaluated for their: drug content, weight variation, thickness, disintegration time, wetting time, hardness, friability, and in-vitro dissolution. Both B-ODTs and M-ODTs showed no significant difference in the results of ODTs evaluation, by Using Design Expert 10 to select the best formulae of both drugs the best formulae were for poor water-soluble M9 (Lactose) > M3 (F-melt) > M6 (pro ODT) > M1 (Ph.brust) and for water-soluble: B4(Pro HD 90) > B3 (F-melt)...
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