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Background: Currently, 23 drugs for treating drug-susceptible TB, MDR-TB, or latent TB infection are in Phase I, II, or III trials. Bedaquiline, Delamanid and Pretomanid are new approved drugs. Still, TB is more prevalent in many countries. So, ideally, the countries facing this problem should do extensive research. Aim: The aim of our study is to find the number of studies, their design, sponsorship, phase, and state-wise distribution of studies on tuberculosis in India. Methods: After receiving an exemption from the ethics committee. The search term used in the “Trial Search” section of the CTRI site was “tuberculosis” or “TB” and the variables were captured and analyzed by using descriptive statistics in SPSS 26. Result: A total 134 studies were found. 61.9% of studies were interventional type, 78% were institute funded, 59 studies involved drug use mostly in combination, 104 studies were conducted at a single center, and 45 studies took sample sizes ranging up to 100. Only 37% of studies’ completion report was found. 18% of studies were...
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Spices are herbs used as flavoring, aromatic, and coloring agents. The culture of various countries even involves the incorporation of spices daily, not just for their culinary potential but also for the health benefits they provide. Many age-old scriptures suggest incorporating the Indian System of Spices in everyday meals to counter many diseases and keep them at bay. The fact that dietary factors play an important role in the treatment as-well-as prevention of diseases makes it all the more important to conduct research and provide scientific evidence regarding the use of culinary species as potential agents with a therapeutic effect. Such culinary spices have various active phytoconstituents, which can have many therapeutic effects and also prove to be great antimicrobial, antidiabetic, anticancer, etc. Generally, most of allopathic drugs are taken individually. Still, unlike them, the spices are consumed in combinations to provide a possible synergistic effect that would be advantageous to us. Also, due to lesser chances of side effects and incorporation of mechanisms to treat any disease right...
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Aegle marmelos (L.) is an important plant with various medicinal values. It is commonly known as Bael (or Bel), belonging to the family Rutaceae. Bilwa is used to cure a variety of diseases. All the parts of this plant-like fruit, leaves, bark, stem and roots are used in different diseases, a variety of alkaloids are found in it. Compounds purified from the fruit have been proven to have biological potential against several diseases like diabetes, gastric ulcer and have lipid regulating properties. This review emphasizes the prospective applications of Aegle marmelos (L.) in the pharmaceutical field due to its extensive pharmacological...
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Manuscript aims to furnish glimpse on coating processes (CoPr). The coating is the process of applying coating materials (CoMa) onto the substrate surface (S-S). With time and space dimension of CoPr, that upraised as sugar-coating (S-C) expanded to film-coating (F-C) and specialized one. Lengthy and wearisome processing and skilled operators issues inherited to S-C spring-up F-C and its improvement from non-aqueous F-C to aqueous film-coating (AF-C). Non-aqueous film-coating processes (F-CP) make use of a volatile organic solvent (VOS) while AF-C processes uses aqueous solvent (AS), as a solvent system for coating formulations (C-F). VOS is preferred over AS in F-CP, and momentum for using AS has been accelerating from past few decades. Issues from VOS’s use upraised relating to safety; worker hygiene & safety; toxicity; environmental pollution; etc. These upraised issues intensified, thus, nowadays, AF-C processes are replacing VOS-based F-CP. Later on, finding the novelty of coating and CoPr thru coating of particulates became another dimension of expansion. This involves modification and/or alteration in innate properties of particulates, chemically...
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Nanogels (NGs) are advanced and innovative drug delivery systems that play an important role in remarking many issues that are associated with recent and trendy courses of treatment, such as non-specific effects and low stability. NGs could be well-defined as extremely cross-linked hydrogels (nano-sized) ranging from 20-200 nm. NGs are vigorous nanoparticles (NPs) used to deliver active drug complexes for the controlled delivery of drugs. This system is simpler and safer for both hydrophobic and hydrophilic drugs because of their chemical composition and formulations that are unsuitable for different formulations. Drugs are incorporated into NGs for many purposes, like gene targeting, organ targeting, diagnosis, and many more. NGs can be administered through different pulmonary, nasal, transdermal, intra-ocular, oral, and parenteral routes. Frequently, NGs are used to treat cancer, bone regeneration, inflammation, etc. This NGs system is a novel drug delivery system for hydrophobic and hydrophilic drugs. This review mainly focuses on providing general information on NGs, their properties, various classifications, drug targeting methodology, different types of drug delivery systems, evaluation methods and novel applications of NGs in...
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