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Lead is important heavy metal and due to widespread use in industry, it has become an important pollutant that exerts toxic effects on human health. Lifestyle factors (e.g. cigarette smoking), proximity to industrial areas, lead mines, lead based paints and leaded gasoline significantly contribute to lead pollution of the air, food, water and soil. Several antioxidant enzymes and molecules have been used to evaluate lead–induced oxidative damage. Present study aimed to evaluate the lead acetate induced cardio-toxicity. Lead acetate is known to induce changes in free radical scavenging enzymes like superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase (CAT). Healthy looking mice showing no sign of morbidity were divided into three groups. Group I was designated as control whereas group II and group III received lead acetate having doses 10 mg/kg body weight of lead acetate, daily and 150 mg/kg body weight of lead acetate, weekly respectively. Study was performed after 24 hours, 40 and 80 days stages. Lead acetate significantly decrease antioxidant enzymes and increase oxidative stress along with cardiac tissue...
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The rationale of the present study was to formulate & optimize the floating Bupropion HCl microsponges by 23 factorial design. The concentration of ethyl cellulose (EC), polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and Dichloromethane (DCM) were selected as independent variables. Floating lag time & % drug release were selected as independent variables. Factors, their levels (with values) were substituted in the design of experiment software (Sigma tech version 3.1). The effect of factors at different levels on response variable was predicted using poly nominal equations. FTIR studies revealed that no chemical interaction between drug & polymer used. DSC confirmed molecular dispersion of drug in the microsponges polymer matrix. Quasi emulsion solvent diffusion method was used to formulate microsponges. Bupropion HCl showed acceptable flow. The morphology of microsponges was studied using SEM and it was found that microsponges were spherical and porous. USP Type II dissolution apparatus with cellophane membrane was used to study in vitro drug release. Kinetic studies revealed that drug release from optimized formulation followed Higuchi’s model and diffusion is...
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In view of therapeutic values associated with Syzygium cumini and increasing consumer demand for functional foods, a non-conventional alcoholic beverage prepared from the stem of Syzygium cumini was evaluated for its efficacy against streptozotocin-induced diabetes mellitus in male wistar rats. The beverage was observed to be safe for consumption as it did not produce any anomalies in the biochemical markers of liver and kidney of normal rats, rather exerted protective effects on hepatic and renal functions by improving the levels of biochemical indicators. After an oral administration of a daily single of dose of 4ml/kg for a period of 30 days, stem beverage was able to rectify the abnormalities in blood glucose levels, lipid profile and atherogenic index of diabetic rats. The beverage also arrested the deviations in hepatic and renal functions of diabetic rats. Histological studies of pancreas also confirmed the anti-diabetic behaviour of stem beverage. The pharmacological properties of the beverage can be ascribed to the presence of various phenolics and tannins in it. The use of...
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A QSAR studies on pyrazole derivatives as specific anticancer agents was performed with 37 (32 training + 5 test) compounds. QSAR studies were performed using chemOffice 6.0 software supplied by Cambridge soft. The sketched structures were subjected to energy minimization and then used to calculate the physiochemical properties. The regression analysis was carried out using a computer program called VALSTAT. The best models were selected from the various statistically significant equations. The study revealed that descriptors molecular weight (MW) and Connolly solvent excluded volume (cn sev) reduces the activity, where as molar refractivity (MR) enhances the anticancer activity. The analysis resulted in QSAR equation, which suggests that, n=27, r = 0.9115, r2 = 0.8308, adjusted r2 = 0.8087, standard deviation (std) = 0.0915 and q2 = 0.7644. The results obtained from QSAR studies could be used in designing better anticancer agents among the congeners in...
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Some new hydrazino group substituted benzothiazole derivatives have been synthesized and their characterization was done by IR, NMR and MASS spectral data. The antimicrobial activities of these synthesized compounds was done by cup-plate diffusion method in DMSO against some Gram positive and Gram negative bacteria. Some of synthesized derivatives exhibited potent activity when compared with standard drug...
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