Pharmacy

Dietary Products during Hypertension

HYPERTENSION Hypertension is another name for high blood pressure. It can lead to severe health complications and increase the risk of heart disease, stroke, and sometimes death. DIET People can prevent high blood pressure by following a heart-healthy diet. Reducing salt intake High sodium consumption contributes to high blood pressure. The main source of sodium in

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Protein Binding

Protein Binding Many drugs interact with plasma or tissue proteins or other macromolecules, such as melamine or DNA, to form a drug- macromolecule complex. The formation of a drug protein complex is often named as drug-protein binding. Drug protein binding may be a reversible or irreversible process. The formation of drug protein complex is named

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Chemical Sterilization

Chemical sterilization involves the utilization of certain chemicals to cause microbial termination. For this, the most used materials are chlorine, formaldehyde, glutaraldehyde, quaternary ammonium salts, and ETO. Alkylating gases Principle: Alkalization of essential metabolites of microbes, affecting reproductive         Alkalization occurs by replacing hydrogen on sulfhydryl, amino, carboxyl, hydroxyl-groups with a hydroxyl radical Example:                                                                                                                                                ethyleneoxide,betapropiolactone,glutaraldehyde,formaldehyde,propylene oxide Ethylene oxide

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Sterilization

Sterilization: Process designed to produce a sterile state. Sterile state: Sterile state is absolute condition of total destruction or elimination of all living microbes. Aseptic: The term aseptic indicates a controlled process or condition in which the level of microbial contamination is reduced to the degree that microbes can be excluded from a product during

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Cancer

What is Cancer? Cancer is the deregulation of normal cellular processes.  Cells that have been transformed tend to proliferate in an uncontrolled and deregulated way and, in some cases, to metastasize (spread).  Cancer is not one disease, but a group of more than 100 different and distinctive diseases. Cancer can involve any tissue of the

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Lymphatic System

Lymphatic System The lymphatic system is a network of tissues, vessels and organs that work together to move a colourless, watery fluid called lymph back into your circulatory system (your bloodstream). Some 20 litres of plasma flow through your body’s arteries and smaller arteriole blood vessels and capillaries every day.  Lymphatic organs and tissues Primary

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Intravenous Anesthetics

Intravenous Anesthetics Intravenous anesthetics are a group of fast-acting compounds that are used to induce a state of impaired awareness or complete sedation. Commonly used Intravenous anesthetics include Propofol ,etomidate, ketamine and barbiturates BARBITURATES The three barbiturates most used in clinical anesthesia are sodium thiopental, thiamylal, and methohexital. Sodium thiopental has been used most frequently for inducing

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