Peptide drugs are an exciting class of pharmaceuticals increasingly used for the treatment of a variety of diseases; however, their main drawback is a short half-life, which dictates multiple and frequent injections and an undesirable "peak-and-valley" pharmacokinetic profile, which can cause undesirable side-effects. Synthetic prolonged release formulations can provide extended release of biol...

Synthetic biology offers a new path for the exploitation and improvement of natural products to address the growing crisis in antibiotic resistance. All antibiotics in clinical use are facing eventual obsolesce as a result of the evolution and dissemination of resistance mechanisms, yet there are few new drug leads forthcoming from the pharmaceutical sector. Natural products of microbial origin...

The case of a 22-year-old male Caucasian driver is presented. He was involved in a traffic collision. At the roadside, he displayed blank stare and mellow speech with a barely audible voice. A DRE found low body temperature, rigid muscle tone, normal pulse, lack of horizontal and vertical gaze nystagmus, nonconvergence of the eyes, dilated pupil size, and normal Pupillary reaction to light. A s...

Mirror-image proteins (composed of D-amino acids) are promising therapeutic agents and drug discovery tools, but as synthesis of larger D-proteins becomes feasible, a major anticipated challenge is the folding of these proteins into their active conformations. In vivo, many large and/or complex proteins require chaperones like GroEL/ES to prevent misfolding and produce functional protein. The a...

In the developing world, multi-drug resistant malaria caused by the parasite Plasmodium falciparum is an epidemic that claims the lives of 1-3 million people per year. Artemisinin, a naturally occurring small molecule that has seen little resistance from malarial parasites, is a valuable weapon in the fight against this disease. Several easily accessible artemisinin derivatives, including artes...

BACKGROUND Drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) is a major public health problem caused by various factors. It is essential to systematically investigate the epidemiological and, in particular, the ecological factors of DR-TB for its prevention and control. Studies of the ecological factors can provide information on etiology, and assist in the effective prevention and control of disease. So it ...

Impurities of drug substances may produce some side effects in patient. Diclofenac Na is a member of non-steroidal anti inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) family, which is routinely used by patients for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and various pains. To develop a method for the determination of synthetic precursors which could be remained as impurities in raw drug materials, Na diclofenac pow...

Impurities of drug substances may produce some side effects in patient. Diclofenac Na is a member of non-steroidal anti inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) family, which is routinely used by patients for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and various pains. To develop a method for the determination of synthetic precursors which could be remained as impurities in raw drug materials, Na diclofenac pow...

This machine learning study aims to identify prior to treatment the patients who are not likely to respond to drug therapy with α-blockers of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH). Medical records of 310 BPH patients are used. The data set is divided into two classes, namely positive and negative-response groups, with respect to the change in the patient’s International Prostate Symptom Score (IPS...

The purpose of present research work is to develop gastro retentive formulation for Moxifloxacin using various release retardants. Moxifloxacin, novel synthetic fluoro quinolone, antibacterial agent. Floating tablets of Moxifloxacin. HCl were prepared using variable amounts of HPMCK4M, HPMCK15M and HPMCK100M with effervescent mixtures by direct compression technique. Totally 9 formulations were...