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Background: The quality of education offered by Pharmacy institutions in the country varies widely. There are only a few institutions which maintain internationally recognized standard. Aim: To assess the pharmacy student’s (Pharm. D) perception today, their course, curriculum, and facilities provided. Methods: A postal survey was conducted on the Pharm. D students in Tamil Nadu, India, affiliated to The TN Dr. MGR Medical University. Students were evaluated for the perception on their curriculum, education, facilities provided and perception about the practice of clinical pharmacy in India. Results: 412 students responded to questionnaire. Based on the evaluated questionnaire, the student’s perception towards pharmacy education and curriculum seems to be very poor and survey also revealed poor inclination towards pharmacy as a profession. Student’s perception on scope and contribution was found to be unsatisfactory. Student’s learning tools, teaching methods and evaluation system were found inexpressive to the pharmacy students. Therefore, there is a need to change such a wrong perception and poor inclination from the minds of pharmacy students by the...
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This research aimed to analyze the effect of vitamin B12 supplementation on vitamin B12 serum level and memorizing ability of preschool children. A community – randomized controlled trial of 29 preschool children (4-6 year) was conducted for six months. Subjects were divided into two groups, treatment group (received 10 mcg of vitamin B12 daily syrup) and control group (placebo). Serum vitamin B12 and memory levels of children were measured before and after the intervention. Result of research was after 6 months of vitamin B12 on supplementation prevalence of vitamin B12 deficiency decreased in treatment group from 26.7% to 0.0%, while in the control group increased from 21.4% to 28.6%. The mean of increasing serum vitamin B12 was significantly different among those groups (148 ± 110.9 pg/ml in the treatment group and 3.7 ± 12.8 pg/mL in the control group). Memorizing ability affected by vitamin B12 supplementation for overall children with relative risk (RR) was 19.5. Reviews of this research imply the important result of vitamin B12 supplementation on improving...
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An accurate, simple, new, precise, rugged and stability indicating method was developed for simultaneous estimation of sitagliptin and metformin HCl in tablets. The developed method was rapid and economic. The Chromatographic separation was achieved isocratically on a C-18 column by using ammonium acetate buffer (adjusted to pH 5.0 with glacial acetic acid): MeOH (60:40 v/v). Octane -1-sulfonic acid sodium salt was used as an ion pair agent. Flow rate of 1mL/min with dual wavelength UV detection (265nm for sitagliptin & 225 nm for metformin) was used. The retention times of metformin and sitagliptin are 2.398 min and 17.113min respectively. The developed method was specific and well separated from the impurities of both sitagliptin and metformin. The method is linear in a range of 50% to 150% for both sitaglitpin and metformin. The correlation coefficient was found to be r2= 0.9997 & 0.9998 for sitagliptin and metformin respectively. Both standard and test solutions proved to be stable for up to 48 h. Forced degradation study showed that the method is...
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Jackfruit peel is one among the under-utilized waste materials. In the present study, cellulose was extracted from de-pectinated peel. The peel was treated with alkali followed by a chemical process treatment. The yield of jackfruit cellulose was 27g / 100g of dry matter. Water and oil holding capability was a good retention value and higher hydration capacities of cellulose. The bulk, true densities and carr’s index of cellulose were 0.17 ± 0.05 g/ml; 0.005 g/ml and 10.561%. Jackfruit cellulose foaming capacity was 2.99 % at pH 9 and foaming stability was maintained at pH 7, until the end of time (2h). Jackfruit peel as a potential source of natural cellulose has been comparing favourably with commercial grade cellulose used for food, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic...
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Polyalthia korinti (Dunal) Benth. & Hook. F. is a rare Indo – Sri Lankan species of Annonaceae family and are traditionally used by tribal people of Ghats region, India for treating several ailments. The number of mature plants and the area of its distribution are too low and this species is placed under the vulnerable critically endangered category. The present study deals with the pharmacognostic and physicochemical evaluations of the leafy part of this plant and was undertaken as an initial step to aid in documentation, quality assurance, proper identification etc. and appropriately to investigate the plant material for its ethanomedicinal claims. Macro and micro morphological parameters of leaf and dried leaves powder were set down following standard procedures recommended by Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia of India. Macroscopic study of leaf revealed some of the characteristic features like size, shape and color and in microscopic study internal characteristic features like epidermis, cortex, xylem, phloem, trichomes, and stomata were noted. Physicochemical parameters like total ash value, water soluble ash, acid insoluble ash,...
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