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Due to various advantages such as high-precision dosing, manufacturing efficiency and patient compliance helped making tablets the most popular dosage forms among all available dosages forms. Compaction, which is an essential manufacturing step in the manufacture of tablets, mainly includes compression (i.e. reduction of volume of the powder under consideration and particle rearrangement) and consolidation (i.e., formation of interparticulate bond to facilitate stable compaction). The success of the compaction process depends not only on the physico-technical properties of drugs and excipients, but also on the instrument settings with respect to rate and magnitude of force transfer. Tablet manufacturing speed and pre/main compression force profile also have an influence on the quality of the final tablet. Mechanical aspects of tablet formation can be studied using, instrumented punches/dies, instrumented tablet punching machines, and compaction simulators. These have potential application in pharmaceutical research and development, such as studying basic compaction mechanism, various process variables, scale-up parameters, trouble shooting problems, creating compaction data library, and fingerprinting of new active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) or...
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Parkinsonia acculeata is used in traditional medicine for the treatment of jaundice and diabetes. Accordingly, the present study was designed to investigate the effects of Pet ether and aqueous extracts of the leaves of Parkinsonia acculeata on glucose homeostasis in alloxan induced diabetis in rabbits. After 7 days of study it showed that Parkinsonia acculeata reduced glucose levels significantly. The extracts were also able to reduce quantatively C reactive proteins and levels of SGOT and SGPT enzymes. It was concluded that due to its potent antioxidant and antidiabetic properties, the Parkinsonia acculeata extract exerts remarkable antidiabetogenic...
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The prophylactic efficacy of garlic (Allium sativum Linn.) (Alliaceae) extract was studied on changes in WBC differential count pattern in male albino rats. The rats were divided into four groups A, B, C and D, keeping group A as a healthy control. The garlic extract was tried in three different doses, 1ml, 2ml and 4ml/ kg body weight as low, medium and high dose respectively and given orally for the period of 7, 14, 21 or 28 days daily to the rats of group B, C and D as stated above. The results clearly indicate that a significant increase (P<0.01) in lymphocyte and eosinophil percent and a significant decrease (P<0.01) in neutrophil and monocyte percent at low and medium dose but at higher dose their percentage increases within the normal values. This investigation indicates not only the benefits and drawback of raw garlic but also its uses in regulation of certain parameters for well-being of...
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Direct compression is the preferred method for the preparation of tablets. Co-processing is the one of the most widely explored and commercially utilized method for the preparation of directly compressible vehicles. The objective of the present study is to prepare and characterize pregelatinized starch-poly vinyl pyrrolidone (PGS-PVP) co-processed excipient and to evaluate its application as directly compressible vehicle in tablet formulations. PGS-PVP co-processed excipient was prepared by gelatinizing potato starch in the presence of PVP and drying the resulting mass. The co-processed excipient prepared was characterized by determining melting point, solubility, swelling index in water, pH, and micromeritic characters namely particle size, bulk density, tapped density, angle of repose and compressibility index, by FTIR spectra and evaluated for its application in tablet formulations. PGS-PVP co-processed excipient prepared by gelatinizing potato starch (49 parts) in the presence of PVP (1 part) is a crystalline, discrete and free flowing powder. It is insoluble in water and aqueous fluids of pH 1.2, 4.5 and 7.4 and in several organic solvents. It exhibited...
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The ethanolic extract of leaves of Acalypha hispida was evaluated for phytochemical, cytotoxic and antibacterial activities. Phytochemical studies revealed the presence of flavonoids, saponins, glycosides, reducing sugars and steroids. Cytotoxic activity was investigated by brine shrimp (Artemia salina) lethality assay. The extract showed potent cytotoxic effect (LC50 19.95µg/ml) which is comparable to standard cytotoxic drug chloramphenicol (LC50 7µg/ml). Antibacterial activity was tested by disk diffusion method. The extract exhibited significant antibacterial activity against Salmonella typhe and moderate activity against Enterococcus coli, Streptococcus saprophyticus and Streptococcus agalactin whereas Shigella dysentery found resistant at 250µg/disc and...
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