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Background: Perception of pain and sleep disturbances are more prevalent in patients undergoing Dialysis. Assessing and determining the pain intensity and sleep disturbances help to establish the need for treatment, which is an important part of therapeutic intervention as they may affect the patient’s Quality of life (QOL). This study was aimed to assess pain intensity and sleep disturbances in patients undergoing Hemodialysis (HD) and Peritoneal Dialysis (PD). Methodology: This cross-sectional and observational study was conducted in the Department of Nephrology. 89 patients (49 HD and 40 PD) were enrolled into the study that were undergoing hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis and were assessed for the pain intensity and sleep disturbances using McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ) and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) respectively. Results: 67.34% of HD patients and 77.5% of PD patients experienced moderate to severe chronic pain. Female patients aged above 40 years and elderly patients experienced more pain compared to other groups and pain was also observed increasing with the duration of dialysis. 57.14% of HD patients...
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Caffeine anhydrous is used as a stimulant to improve individual alertness and mental focus due to its ability of inhibiting the function of phosphodiesterase enzyme in the cells. Recent studies also discovered where caffeine reduced the risk of Parkinson’s disease by its inhibitory action on adenosine receptor. With the aim of masking the bitter taste of caffeine, increasing the compliance and convenience in elderly patients, and achieving better therapeutic purpose, the orally dissolving films (ODFs) were developed in this research. Six formulation of caffeine ODFs (CA1-CA6) with increasing caffeine concentrations, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30% w/v; were prepared by solvent casting method. All of the caffeine ODFs, CA1-CA5 (except CA6), exhibit good film forming capacity and were peelable. The in-vitro disintegration time for CA1-CA5 were in the range of United States Pharmacopoeia’s (USP) criteria (5-30s) and their surface pH is ~7, which suggested administration of ODF is not expected to cause irritation and...
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Introduction: Monoherbal or polyherbal formulation, which is used in Siddha medication, have a wide variety of phytochemical substances as primary and secondary metabolites, which show many pharmacological activities, including the anti-inflammatory effect. Materials and Methods: The anti-inflammatory activity of Kanduparangi chooranam (KC) was evaluated by using carrageenan-induced paw edema and carrageenan-induced pleurisy Wistar albino rat models. KCwas administered orally at doses such as 100 and 200 mg/kg BW, and it was compared with the standard drug indomethacin (10 mg/kg, body weight). The changes in % of inhibition of paw volume, level of pleural exudates and migratory leukocyte count were noted. Results: In the carrageenan-induced rat paw oedema model, the test drug KC was found to be the paw oedema volume at the dose of 100mg and 200 mg/kg, body weight was 61.94% and 63.05 %, respectively (p<0.001) whereas Indomethacin which had 65.83% paw volume inhibition. In the carrageenan-induced pleurisy rat models, the test drug KC was found to be values of the pleural exudates level at the dose of...
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Raphanus sativus L, belongs to the family Brassicaceae. Phytochemical analysis of its methanolic root extract revealed the presence of alkaloids, flavonoids, glycosides, tannin, phenolic compounds, triterpenoids and steroids. The antimicrobial activities and in-vitro Pharmacological activities like Antioxidant Activity and Anti-inflammatory activity of the root extract was assessed. Production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) causes various diseases and cellular anomalies in human beings. Antioxidants inhibit generation of reactive species, or scavenge them, or raise the levels of endogenous antioxidant defenses. In this study the radical scavenging ability different extracts of Raphanus sativus L. was undertaken. Results revealed that the root of Raphanus sativus L. has potent antioxidant ability. A good correlation was found to exist between concentration of extract and % inhibition of protein denaturation and free radicle damage. From different literature reports, root extract was found to be more potent antioxidant than the other parts of the plant. The extract had shown significant anti-bacterial activity against bacterium like Lactobacillus, Streptococcus aureus, Escherichia coli against standard Tetracycline by the determination...
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It appears that you have conducted a study on the preparation of Glipizide sustained-release tablets using different HPMC (hydroxypropyl methylcellulose) polymers of varying viscosity grades, specifically HPMCK 4M and HPMC K 15M, in different proportions. The concentration of the polymers was optimized using a simplex mixture design, with HPMC K4M, HPMC K15M and lactose as the components of the mixture. The tablets were prepared using the wet granulation method. According to your study, the prepared tablets exhibited polymeric synergism, which was confirmed through in-vitro dissolution testing. Both HPMC K4M and HPMC K15M showed a synergistic effect on the T50% drug release. However, HPMC K15M demonstrated a dominant effect compared to HPMC K4M due to its higher viscosity. It seems that the higher viscosity of HPMC K15M contributed to a more sustained drug release profile in the tablets. This finding suggests that HPMC K15M played a more significant role in controlling the release rate of Glipizide from the tablets, as compared to HPMC...
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