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Counterfeit and substandard pharmaceutical products circulate widely in developing countries, yet adequate techniques to monitor quality is lacking. We report herein a quick and reliable approach to predict the in-vitro bioequivalence and interchangeability of common antibiotics using nine model drugs; four brands of azithromycin and five brands of clarithromycin tablets marketed in Nigeria. Pharmacopoeia guidelines (British and United States) were used to assess tablet quality such as friability, disintegration and dissolution times. All the brands tested passed the British Pharmacopoeia standard for disintegration time and their hardness and friability values were also considered adequate. There were no significant differences in the dissolution profiles of the brands, however, the azithromycin brands released >70% of the active drug within 30 min. The calculated similarity factor values for the azithromycin and clarithromycin brands were between 61 to 100 and 46 to 100 respectively. Based on the in-vitro tests, all the brands of azithromycin were considered bioequivalent with the innovator brand. However, only one brand had a similarity factor very close to that...
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The clinical efficacy of glucocorticoids is dependent on its potency and on its ability to be absorbed in to the skin and therefore, reach its site of action. Colloidal drug carriers such as solid lipid nanoparticles could target glucocorticoids to the epidermis, where the anti-inflammatory action takes place. Topical corticosteroids have long been the chronic stage in the treatment of steroid responsive dermatitis. Creams containing Clobetasol-17-propionate (CP) as active ingredients are categorized as super potent class I topical dermatological corticosteroids. For the drug molecule to reach the cutaneous microcirculation, enhance, the systemic circulation, have to transverse both the lipophilic stratum cornium and much more viable epidermis. Various formulations of solid lipid nanoparticles were formulated using various ingridients viz. Compritol 888 ATO, lutrol F68, tween 80 etc. the cream formulations were evaluated as there pH, drug content, viscosity, spreadability, extrudability and percent drug release. In-vitro diffusion study using cellophane membrane as well as rat skin mounted in Franz diffusion cell. CP was analyzed spectrophotometrically at 240...
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Synthetic organic compounds, containing relatively higher number of nitrogen attracting interest in the current medical research due to their utility in chemotherapy. The development of new medicines with more number of nitrogen atoms in their structural framework is an important challenging task for medicinal chemists. The lipophilicity of Mannich bases and their metal complexes enables them to be more potent novel medicines and acquire huge interest among medicinal chemists. We report here the synthesis of novel lead structure of new Mannich base and its complexeswith the variety of transition metals such as Co(II), Mn(II), Ni(II), Cu(II) and Zn(II) and evaluated them for DPPH free radical scavenging and anti-inflammatory activity. As the Mannich base from the combinations 4-nitrobenzaldehyde, morpholine and nicotinamide was not yet reported, the new Mannich base, N-[Morpholino(4-nitrophenyl)methyl]nicotinamide (NMN), was synthesized from this combination. The ligand and its complexes were characterized using various analytical (Chemical assays, Elemental analysis and TLC) and spectral studies (FT-IR, UV-Visible, 1H NMR, 13C NMR, Mass and...
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Infectious bronchitis virus causes infectious bronchitis in chickens. Variant 2 is a virulent strain circulating in the Middle East, Iraq is one of them, which harbor the strain at high rate causes a severe economic loos. Sequences of variable S1 glycoprotein were collected, consensus sequence derived and used in computational epitope vaccine design. The results gave one B cell epitope “DFMYGSYHPKCDFRPETIN” with very high antigenic score. T cell (CTL) epitope prediction produced four epitopes “QTQTAQSGY, FNFSFLSSF, FSFLSSFVY, NSLSVSLAY” with desirable criteria and react with many MHC I alleles, and docked with BF2*21:01 and BF2.0401 chicken MHC I molecules. T helper cell epitopes prediction gave eight epitopes “GYYNFNFSFLSSFVY, KFIVYRETSVNTTLV, LTNFTFTNVSNALPN, TG GVNTINIYQTQTA, TINIYQTQTAQSGYY, YNFNFSFLSSFVYKQ, NNGL WFNSLSVSLAY, NGLWFNSLSVSLAYG” reacting with many MHC II alleles. These epitopes can be used for preparation of vaccine to be investigated in wet lab...
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TAT (Trans-activator-Transcription Protein) is a viral protein encoded by the TAT gene in HIV-1-which is a lethal subtype of HIV (Human immunodeficiency Virus). It is vital for transcription of the viral genome. Previous studies show that in Human, TAT is a toxin-producing protein allowing cell death in obtained from QSAR studies, best quassinoid compounds were used to find the highest binding affinity compound by performing normal T-cells. Thereafter allows for progression towards AIDS (Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome). Traditionally, herbal medicines have played a vital role in the treatment of many diseases and ailments. Likewise, Quassinoids from the plant family Simaroubacaea, possess insecticidal, antimalarial and anticancer properties. Although studies have been conducted to find anti-HIV activities against other HIV-1 proteins, there are no traces of studies against Trans-activator-Transcription protein (1JFW). The main objective of this study is to find an efficacious inhibitor against a synthetic HIV TAT protein (PDB- IJFW). After a thorough literature survey, the molecular and biological activity of quassinoid phytoconstituents has been recorded for QSAR (Quantitative structure-activity relationship)...
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