Synergistic Outcomes in Drug Delivery: Exploring Harmonious Architectures of Interpenetrating Polymer Networks.

Pharmaceutical excipients play a crucial role in determining the outcome of delivered therapeutic cargo density. By far, polymers have captured the biggest share in the excipients market. This surge in demand motivated researchers to look for newer and novel polymeric platforms.

Unlocking the power of sugar: carbohydrate ligands as key players in nanotherapeutic-assisted targeted cancer therapy.

Cancer cells need as much as 40-times more sugar than their normal cell counterparts. This sugar demand is attained by the excessive expression of inimitable transporters on the surface of cancer cells, driven by their voracious appetite for carbohydrates. Nanotechnological advances drive research utilizing ligand-directed therapeutics and diverse carbohydrate analogs.

From Vision Correction to Drug Delivery: Unraveling the Potential of Therapeutic Contact Lens.

Contact lenses (CLs) have become an essential tool in ocular drug delivery, providing effective treatment options for specific eye conditions. In recent advancements, Therapeutic CLs (TCLs) have emerged as a promising approach for maintaining therapeutic drug concentrations on the eye surface. TCLs offer unique attributes, including prolonged wear and a remarkable ability to enhance the bioavailability of loaded medications by more than 50%, thus gaining widespread usage.

Evaluation of Iris Kashmiriana Baker plant extracts against nociception and rheumatoid arthritis in experimental rats: A concept proof by In-silico model.

Ethnopharmacological Relevance: Iris Kashmiriana Baker, a traditional medicinal plant, is native to Asia, found in India, Nepal, Afghanistan, Pakistan, as name indicates majorly it's found in Kashmir region of India. Ethnopharmacologically this plant has been used there for the management of joint pain, but there was no scientific literature available. This species also comes under critically endangered species.

From Traditional Medicine to Advanced Therapeutics: The Renaissance of Phyto-nano Interventions in Psoriasis.

Psoriasis is an autoimmune systemic chronic inflammatory disease that exhibits characteristic detrimental effects on the skin, often leading to infections or comorbid conditions. The multifaceted nature of psoriasis has made it very challenging to treat, especially with current chemotherapy options. Therefore, it is essential to consider phytoconstituents as novel alternatives.

Opportunistic Fungal Invasion in COVID-19 Pandemic: A Critical Review in Diagnosis and Management.

Severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the culprit behind the pandemic across the globe in recent decades. Variants of SARS-CoV especially coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-related fungus might not be identified or might be misdiagnosed on a worldwide scale. Patients of COVID-19 acquired invasive mycoses, especially if they are very ill or immunosuppressed.

Revitalizing allicin for cancer therapy: advances in formulation strategies to enhance bioavailability, stability, and clinical efficacy.

The main objective of this review is to highlight the therapeutic potential of allicin, a defense molecule in garlic known for its diverse health benefits, and address the key challenges of its bioavailability and stability. The research further aims to evaluate various formulation strategies and nanotechnology-based delivery systems that can resolve these issues and improve allicin's clinical efficacy, especially in cancer therapy. We conducted a comprehensive review of the available literature and previous studies, focusing on the therapeutic properties of allicin, its bioavailability, stability issues, and novel formulation strategies.

Small molecules as cancer targeting ligands: Shifting the paradigm.

Conventional chemotherapeutics exploration is hampered due to their nonspecific distribution leading to unintended serious toxicity. Toxicity is so severe that deciding to go for chemotherapy becomes a question of concern for many terminally ill cancer patients. However, with evolving times nanotechnology assisted in reducing the haywire distribution and channelizing the movement of drug-enclosing drug delivery systems to cancer cells to a greater extent, yet toxicity issues still could not be obliterated.

Wnt/β-catenin inhibitor pyrivinium attenuates cisplatin-induced acute kidney injury by possibly reducing platinum uptake and accumulation mediated by reduced organic cation transporter-2 expressions.

Aberrant activation of Wnt/β-catenin induces renal dysfunction by initiating pro-apoptotic cascades, fibrosis, oxidative and inflammatory burden. This study tested the therapeutic effects of Wnt/β-catenin inhibitor pyrvinium against cisplatin-induced acute kidney injury (AKI) in rats. Cisplatin was administered at a single dose of 5 mg/kg (i.

In Silico and In Vitro Screening Constituents of Leaf Extract to Reveal Antimicrobial Potential.

Phytochemicals have been shown to possess multiple bioactives and have been reported to showcase many medicinal effects. A similar kind of evaluation of phytoconstituents for their antimicrobial action has been reported, based on in vitro and in silico data. The goal of the research was to explore bioactive phytoconstituents of leaf for antimicrobial activity.

Diabetic Neuropathy: A Repercussion of Vitamin D Deficiency.

Diabetes mellitus is a crucial health issue worldwide. The worldwide ubiquity is 8.8% among adults, which is predicted to rise to 10.

Vitamin D with Calcium Supplementation Managing Glycemic Control with HbA1c and Improve Quality of Life in Patients with Diabetes.

Objectives:: This study evaluates the effect of vitamin D with calcium supplementation on glycemic control and quality of life (QoL) in patients with diabetes.

Materials And Methods:: A prospective, observational, open-label randomized, controlled study was conducted on 150 type-2 patients with diabetes. A total number of patients were divided into three groups (n= 50 in each group) i.

Chemical Constituents Based Approach for the Management of Diabetes.

Background: A number of complexities in compliance with long-term diabetes have been elicited. It has become a global concern without any convincing medicinal, therapeutical methodology. Both hyperglycaemia and oxidative pressure are major notable parts that play a significant role in the initialization of diabetic inconvenience.

Effectiveness of Empagliflozin With Vitamin D Supplementation in Peripheral Neuropathy in Type 2 Diabetic Patients.

Background: Neuropathy is the most prevalent broad-spectrum microvascular complication of diabetes. The present study aims to evaluate the effect of empagliflozin with vitamin D supplementation on diabetic peripheral neuropathy.

Methods: A prospective, randomized, controlled study was conducted for six months including 150 type 2 diabetic patients, divided into three groups (n=50/group): Group 1, patients on oral hypoglycemic agents; Group 2, patients on empagliflozin and Group 3, patients on empagliflozin with vitamin D.

Chromanone-A Prerogative Therapeutic Scaffold: An Overview.

Chromanone or Chroman-4-one is the most important and interesting heterobicyclic compound and acts as a building block in medicinal chemistry for isolation, designing and synthesis of novel lead compounds. Structurally, absence of a double bond in chromanone between C-2 and C-3 shows a minor difference from chromone but exhibits significant variations in biological activities. In the present review, various studies published on synthesis, pharmacological evaluation on chroman-4-one analogues are addressed to signify the importance of chromanone as a versatile scaffold exhibiting a wide range of pharmacological activities.

The Manifestation of Anxiety as Repercussion of COVID-19: A Survey of Medical Practitioner's Opinion.

Anxiety is usually transient in nature, but if the symptoms are severe and persistent in the absence of stressor, then it is considered as anxiety disorder. Corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) which was declared as pandemic by World Health Organization in March 2020 affected the lives of human beings worldwide. A panic and anxious situation was created due to the outbreak of COVID-19.

Design and Optimization of Febuxostat-loaded Nano Lipid Carriers Using Full Factorial Design.

Objectives: This work aims to develop nanostructured lipid carriers (NLCs) to improve the oral bioavailability of febuxostat (FEB).

Materials And Methods: High shear homogenization, a well-known technique, followed by bath sonication with slight modifications was used to prepare FEB-loaded NLCs using oleic acid as liquid lipid and stearic acid as solid lipid. A total of 3² full factorial design was utilized to examine the effect of 2 independent variables, namely, X1 (liquid to solid lipid ratio) and X2 (surfactant concentration) on the Y1 (particle size) and Y2 (% entrapment efficiency) of the drug.

Anti-atherogenic effect of Nepitrin-7-O-glucoside: A flavonoid isolated from Nepeta hindostana via acting on PPAR - α receptor.

Atherogenic dyslipidemia is a condition and responsible for the induction of major cardiovascular diseases. Traditionally, Nepeta hindostana a medicinal plant commonly used as cardioprotective in Indo-Pak regions has gained importance because of its therapeutic active flavonoid Nepitrin-7-O-glucoside. Flavonoid-glycosides are steroids having the ability to exert specific, decisive action on the cardiac muscle.

Current and Future Prospective of a Versatile Moiety: Imidazole.

Imidazole containing compounds have been a very much explored field since ancient times. Subsequently, it constitutes a significant moiety for the new drug development. A variety of compounds having imidazole moiety have been synthesized, evaluated and marketed for the treatment of various diseases such as antifungal, antiepileptic, ACE inhibitors and so on, as shown in the figure.

Development and Validation of Discriminatory Dissolution Testing Method for Fast Dispersible Tablets of BCS Class II Drug.

Objectives: Fast dispersible tablets (FDTs) get dispersed very fast due to which the discrimination of drug release and their evaluation is difficult. Hence in the present study a new discriminatory dissolution method was developed and validated for FDTs of domperidone of BCS class II.

Materials And Methods: FDTs of domperidone were prepared by direct compression method.

Natural based piperine derivatives as potent monoamine oxidase inhibitors: an in silico ADMET analysis and molecular docking studies.

Neurodegenerative disorders follow numerous pathological ways concerning overexpression of monoamine oxidase and formation of reactive oxygen species. The computational design of the piperine derivatives has given the significant MAO inhibitors with considerable antioxidant potential. Molecular docking provided the mechanistic insight of the compounds within the hMAO active site.

Synthesis, Molecular Docking and Biological Evaluation of 2- Mercaptomidazoles using Solid Phase Synthesis.

Background: With the increasing resistance and side effects caused due to antifungal agents there is an urgent need for the new potent antifungal agents with low toxicity profile. Imidazoles have been used against fungal infections since long time. Further, our previous studies demonstrated that mercaptoimidazoles possessed good antifungal potency.

Molecular Modelling Studies of 1,4-Diaryl-2-Mercaptoimidazole Derivatives for Antimicrobial Potency.

Background: Imidazoles are considered as potent antimicrobial agents. In view of this 2-mercaptoimidazoles were synthesized and evaluated for antimicrobial study.

Methods: Some new 2-mercaptoimidazoles 4a-r were synthesized using substituted aniline and substituted phenacyl bromides in the presence of anhydrous sodium carbonate or potassium carbonate and potassium thiocyanate under solvent-free conditions catalyzed by eco-friendly ptoluene sulfonic acid.

Molecular Modeling Studies of Halogenated Imidazoles against 14α- Demethylase from Candida Albicans for Treating Fungal Infections.

Background: Imidazole is one of the most explored and marketed azole utilized for the treatment of fungal infections. Lanosterol 14α-demethylase (Cytochrome P450DM) is the active target site for azole antifungals.

Aim And Objective: This study emphasized on evaluation of a series of halogenated imidazole analogues using molecular docking studies for anti-Candidal activity.

Assessment of pattern and outcomes of pesticides poisoning in a tertiary care hospital.

Objectives: To assess the socio-demographic profile, pattern and treatment outcomes of pesticides poisoning.

Methods: A prospective observational study was conducted at the department of emergency medicine of a South Indian tertiary care hospital for 1.5 years to study the pattern and outcomes of poisoning cases due to pesticides.