HPTLC based quantification of β-sitosterol from the leaves of and prediction of potential drug targeted towards cancer therapy.

() is a plant of enormous medicinal importance and each part of the plant retained extensive medicinal properties, such as antimicrobial, antioxidant, anticancer and anti-inflammatory activities, etc. Phytosterols are secondary metabolites of plants that are well-known for their ability to reduce cholesterol, boost immunity and inhibit the formation of cancer cells. In this study, β-sitosterol, which boosts antioxidant enzymes and reduces oxidative stress, was qualitatively and quantitatively identified in the methanolic extract of the plant's leaves using the HPTLC.

Circulating cardiac biomarkers and echocardiographic abnormalities in patients with scrub typhus: A prospective cohort study from a tertiary care center in North India.

Background & Objectives: Cardiac injury in scrub typhus is uncommonly reported. We studied the incidence and clinical significance of cardiac involvement among seventy consecutive adult patients of scrub typhus, using circulating cardiac biomarkers, including N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-pro-BNP), troponin T, creatine kinase-muscle/brain isoenzyme (CK-MB) and 2D-echocardiography.

Methods: This was a hospital-based prospective cohort study conducted in the medical emergency of PGIMER, Chandigarh, India.

Pregnancy with dilated and peripartum cardiomyopathy: maternal and fetal outcome.

Background: A retrospective review of the records of all the patients of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) with pregnancy at PGIMER, Chandigarh, India, in order to find out maternal and fetal outcome.

Materials And Methods: We did a retrospective analysis of records of diagnosed cases of DCM from 1994 to 2010. There were records of 38 patients who had DCM with pregnancy.

An Antioxidant potential of Hingot and Hadjod.

The antioxidant activity of two plants - Hadjod i.e. Cissus quadrangularis (CQ) and Hingot i.

Surgical removal of entrapped and broken percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty balloon catheter.

Objectives: The percutaneous coronary artery angioplasty is routinely being used worldwide for the management of short and discrete coronary artery stenosis. The purpose of this report is to address the potentially lethal complication among the variety of surgical problems in conjunction with this procedure. The case also illustrates the potential pitfalls in the management of CAD.