Posted by admin on Apr 30, 2017 in |
Medicinal plants have been known for millennia and are highly esteemed all over the world as a rich source of therapeutic agents for the prevention of various ailments. Today large number of population suffers from kidney stone, gall stone and urinary calculi. Stone disease has gained increasing significance due to changes in living conditions i.e. industrialization and malnutrition. Changes in prevalence and incidence, the occurrence of stone types and stone location, and the manner of stone removal are explained. Medicinal plants are used from centuries due to its safety, efficacy, cultural acceptability and lesser side effects as compared to synthetic drugs. The present article deals with measures to be adopted for the potential of medicinal plants in stone dissolving activity. The problem of urinary stones or calculi is a very ancient one and many remedies have been employed during the ages these stones are found in all parts of the urinary tract, the kidney, the ureters and the urinary bladder and may vary considerably in size. In the present...
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Posted by admin on Apr 27, 2017 in |
Today’s generic drugs manufacturing industry need robust analytical methods for analysis of generic drug products to provide best quality pharmaceutical formulation. Entacapone, Levodopa and Carbidopa tablets is such a product which is used for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. This paper presents a robust HPLC method that has been developed for estimation of % drug release of Entacapone in this multi component drug formulation. HPLC column used for separation was Cosmosil 5PE-MS 150mm x 4.6 mm with 5 micron particle size. Combination of phosphate buffer pH 2.5, acetonitrile and methanol was used for mobile phase in isocratic mode with UV detection at 280 nm. The method was validated to ensure suitability of the method for quantitative determination of % drug release of Entacapone in presence of Levodopa and Carbidopa in this triple drug combination pharmaceutical formulation. Proposed method was found to be specific, precise, robust, accurate and linear in range 0.066 to 0.33 mg/mL of...
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Posted by admin on Apr 12, 2017 in |
Staphylococcus aureus biofilm has been known as one inducing factor for the bacteria’s resistance to various antibiotics. One strategy which may increase the efficacy of the antibiotic is by combining the antibiotic therapy with antiinfective from natural resources. This research was evaluating the potency of three known antiinfective essential oil derived from leaves of Piper betle L., Ocimum basilicum L. forma citratum Back and Cymbopogon citratus L., in a combination with antibiotics i.e. chloramphenicol, streptomycin, and erythromicin towards S. aureus ATCC 29213. The essential oils were obtained by steam-hydrodistillation of the fresh raw materials. Microdillution technique combined with colorimetric was used to determine the biofilm inhibition. Crystal violet was used for biofilm staining of which the reading was performed on a microplate reader. Fractional Inhibitory Concentration Index (FICI) values was evaluated based on the comparison of % inhibitory obtained from the essential oils and the antibiotics in a single and in a combination. The essential oils alone has the PMIC50 (planktonic) values as follows, 0.2% (P. betel), 0,3% (C....
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Posted by admin on Mar 31, 2017 in |
Resolvins and lipoxins endue a novel way of approaching aspirin mechanism of action by developing models. Recent advances in research of aspirin from starting point Willow bark (Salix alba) to resolvins and lipoxins along with their repurposing network. Therefore, aspirin have a big impact on most interesting areas of research. Aspirin and there interaction with several targets molecules (Magic shotguns) give the option in the uses of various disorder but there MOA based uses in all cases not limited to COX rather than newer ones like resolvins, lipoxins, protectins and maresins, In particular, resolvin and lipoxins will play a central part while research aspirin and their rescheduling in different human diseases that’s are better emphasize by novel MOA of...
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Posted by admin on Mar 31, 2017 in |
Cjanus cajan (L.) Millsp belonging to the family Fabaceae commonly known as pigeonpea or arhar. The present study conducted to assess the phytochemical and pharmacognostic in terms of organoleptic, fluorescence analysis and physicochemical parameters of seed coat and cotyledon of C. cajan. Differential extraction yielded of seed coat extracts of petether, chloroform, ethanol and aqueous shows 6.3%, 1.14%, 11.36% and 9.32% and cotyledon extracts of pet ether, chloroform, ethanol and aqueous shows 7.34 %, 4.25%, 10.45 % and 8.45 % respectively. Physicochemical parameters such as total ash, acid insoluble ash and water soluble ash of seed coat and cotyledon were found to be 14.5% and 11.5%, 8.35% and 7.36%, 2.11% and 3.39% respectively. Further the mineral elements like zinc, magnesium and copper content were found more in seed coat whereas, maximum content of iron were observed in cotyledon. The fluorescent analyses of powdered drug play an important role in the determination of quality and purity of the drug. Phytochemical analysis revealed the presence of glycosides, tannins, flavonoids, phenols, lignins,...
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