Anaesthesia for non-obstetric surgery in obstetric patients.

Anaesthesia for pregnant patients presenting for non-obstetric surgery needs a thorough understanding of the physiological changes and altered pharmacokinetics of pregnancy. Considering the effects of surgery and anaesthesia on the foetus, only essential and emergency surgeries are performed during pregnancy. Surgical procedures in second trimester have the advantage of better foetal outcome.

Development and validation of a stability indicating HPLC method for simultaneous determination of four novel fluoroquinolone dimers as potential antibacterial agents.

A series of novel 6-fluoro1,4-dihydro-4-oxo-3-quinoline carboxylic acid dimers were synthesized as potential antibacterial agents from commercially available substituted fluorobenzoic acids. A stability indicating HPLC method was developed to determine these novel fluoroquinolone dimers using a systematic method development approach. Samples were subjected to stress conditions of hydrolysis, oxidation, photolysis and thermal degradation; and analyzed to demonstrate the specificity and stability indicating ability of the developed method.

Molecular modeling studies of phenoxypyrimidinyl imidazoles as p38 kinase inhibitors using QSAR and docking.

p38 Kinase plays a vital role in inflammation mediated by tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNFalpha) and interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) pathways and inhibitors of p38 kinase provide effective approach for the treatment of inflammatory diseases. Pyridinyl and pyrimidinyl imidazoles, selectively inhibit p38alpha MAP kinase, are useful in the treatment of inflammatory diseases like rheumatoid arthritis. Three dimensional quantitative structure-activity relationship studies (3D-QSAR) involving comparative molecular field analysis (CoMFA) and comparative similarity indices analysis (CoMSIA) and molecular docking were performed on 44 phenoxypyrimidinyl imidazole p38 kinase inhibitors to find out the structural relationship with the activity.