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Objective: The present study has been carried out to evaluate the antioxidant property of different extracts obtained from successive extraction of Annona reticulata L. leave with solvents of increasing polarity. Effort also has been made to estimate the flavonoid and phenolics content of the extracts. Method: The antioxidant activity has been studied in-vitro by using DPPH, hydrogen peroxide and nitric oxide-scavenging assay. Results: DPPH, H2O2 and Nitric-oxide scavenging effect of Annona reticulata L. leaf extracts were found to be dose dependant with maximum inhibition at highest concentration. Methanolic extract of the leaves of Annona reticulata Linn. is found to have most potent anti-oxidant activity in DPPH, H2O2 and nitric-oxide Radical scavenging methods. IC50 value DPPH, H2O2 and Nitric-oxide inhibition of methanolic extract at highest concentration (400µg/ml) are 62.58 ± 1.15, 68.27 ± 1.05 and 64.01 ± 1.02. Conclusion: The results suggest that all the tested extracts are having antioxidant property, but the methanol is having significantly higher flavonoid and phenol content. Due to presence of higher flavonoid and phenol...
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Inflammation is a basic way in which the body reacts to infection, irritation or other injury, the key feature being redness, warmth, swelling and pain. There was a need for synthesis of anti-inflammatory agents with increased potency. Pyrazoline (dihydro pyrazole) derivatives exhibit various biological activities. These derivatives are well known for their pronounced anti-inflammatory activity. Therefore such ring systems are of great interest in medicinal chemistry. A series of novel 1, 3, 5 trisubstituted-2-pyrazoline derivatives were synthesized in a series of three steps. Firstly, acetophenone and 4-methoxybenzaldehyde were reacted in presence of sodium hydroxide with ethanol as the solvent leading to the formation of chalcones (1). These chalcones were reacted with hydrazine hydrate which formed the new cyclized product (2). Finally, the cyclized product was reacted with different substituted chlorides in presence of ethanolic solution of sodium hydroxide to give the new 1, 3, 5 trisubstituted-2-pyrazoline derivatives (3a – 3j). All the synthesized compounds were characterized by FTIR spectroscopy, UV spectroscopy and compounds of interest were characterized by (1H...
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A simple, highly sensitive, precise and accurate liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) method was developed for the rapid quantification of clobazam in human plasma samples. The chromatographic separation was achieved with a reverse phase column Reprosil Gold XBD C18 (100 × 3mm, 3µm) and the mobile phase consisted of 10 mM ammonium acetate buffer and 0.1% acetic acid in methanol (15:85, v/v) as eluent by running a linear gradient method. The effluence was ionized by positive electrospray ionization and measured by mass spectrometry. The method was validated with linear calibration curve over a wide dynamic concentration range of 0.501-499.995 ng/mL and the lower limit of quantification was 0.501 ng/mL with good accuracy and precision. The mean extraction recovery of the method was higher than 96.4% and 103.3% for clobazam and IS, respectively. The method was successfully demonstrated for evaluation of bioequivalence study of 10 mg clobazam tablet formulation in 28 healthy Indian male subjects under fasting...
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A novel stability-indicating mass compatible gradient Reverse Phase Ultra-Performance Liquid Chromatographic (RP-UPLC) method was developed for the quantitative determination of purity of brivaracetam drug substance samples in the presence of its impurities and degradation products. The method was developed using waters acquity UPLC BEH SHIELD RP18 (100 mm x 2.1 mm, 1.7 µm) column with mobile phase containing a gradient mixture of solvents A and B. The eluted compounds were monitored at 230 nm, the run time was 10 min within which brivaracetam and its four impurities were well separated. Brivaracetam was subjected to the stress conditions of oxidative, acid, base, hydrolytic, thermal and photolytic degradation. Brivaracetam was found to degrade significantly in acidic and slightly in oxidative stress conditions and stable in base, hydrolytic, and photolytic degradation conditions. The degradation products were well resolved from main peak and its impurities, proving the stability-indicating power of the method. The developed method was validated as per ICH guidelines with respect to specificity, linearity, limit of detection, limit of quantification, accuracy,...
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Selenium nanoparticles are attracting more and more attention due to their excellent photoelectrical characteristics and high biological activity. Selenium is also found to be effective against cancer. ZnO nanoparticles are reported to inhibit the growth of a wide range of pathogenic bacteria under normal visible lighting conditions. In this research work, we report the preparation of a set of Selenium doped ZnO nanoparticles (Zn1-xSexO1-δ; where x = 0.05, 0.10, 0.15 and 0.20) by simple chemical synthesis method. The materials were characterized systematically by X-ray Diffraction method, FT-IR spectroscopy, particle size analysis, SEM, EDAX analysis and TEM. The physical characterization studies have revealed the presence of fine particles in the prepared crystalline materials. The prepared materials were also subjected to antimicrobial assay by agar well diffusion method against both Gram positive (Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus subtilis) and Gram negative bacteria (Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae). Among studied, the material with the composition the materials Zn0.80Se0.20O1-δ have exhibited excellent antibacterial activity against the bacteria such as, Bacillus subtilis and Staphylococcus aureus....
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