Antidiabetic and hypolipidemic effects of different fractions of coccinia cordifolia L. on normal and streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats

The present study was carried out to observe the antidiabetic and hypolipidemic effects of petroleum-ether, ethyl acetate and chloroform fractions isolated from ethanolic extract of the leaves of Coccinia cordifolia Linn. [150 mg/kg body weight] on normal and streptozotocin [STZ]-induced diabetic rats for one day experiment. Single doses [150 mg/kg, i.p.] of C. cordifolia extracts were given to normal and diabetic rats. The fasting blood glucose [FBG], serum triglyceride [TG] and serum total cholesterol [TC] levels were investigated in normal and STZ-diabetic rats on 0, 1, 2, 3, 6, 10, 16, and 24[th] hours. In normoglycemic rats the pet-ether and ethyl acetate fractions of C. cordifolia reduced blood glucose level significantly [39.66% and 40.68% at 16[th] and 24[th] hour respectively]. In the STZ-diabetic rats pet-ether and ethyl acetate fractions also reduced blood glucose level significantly [50.39% and 50% at 10[th] and 24[th] hour respectively]. Ethyl acetate fraction is most effective which reduced total cholesterol level by 31.04% and 36.69% in normal and STZ-diabetic rats respectively. Ethyl acetate fraction reduced triglyceride level by 43.82% and 42.01% in normal and STZ-diabetic rats respectively. Our results indicate that pet-ether and ethyl acetate fractions of C. cordifolia have potentiality against diabetes

Effect of starch 1500 as a binder and disintegrant in lamivudine tablets prepared by high shear wet granulation

High shear wet granulation is a preferred manufacturing method of tablets. It allowed for rapid production of compressible granulations. The resultant granulation characteristics depend on a combination of formulation properties and processing parameters. Fully pregelatinized starches are currently being used as binders in wet granulated formulations. But due to the gelatinization, much of the disintegration properties are lost. Partially pregelatinized starches [Starch 1500] have a mixture of properties of both native and fully gelatinized starches; made them useful as both a binder and a disintegrant in wet granulated formulations. Starch 1500 performed as an excellent binder producing a granulation that was compressible and produced Lamivudine tablets of improved hardness and friability compared with those prepared with povidone. The formulation of Lamivudine tablets with Starch 1500 exceeded the disintegration and dissolution performance of the povidone formulation that utilized a super disintegrant. High shear wet granulation is also well suited for the use of partially pregelatinized starches

Simultaneous high-performance liquid chromatographic determination of atenolol and amlodipine in pharmaceutical-dosage form

A simple, rapid and precise method is developed for the quantitative simultaneous determination of atenolol and amlodipine in a combined pharmaceutical-dosage form. The method is based on High Performance Liquid Chromatography [HPLC] on a reversed-phase column, shim-pack CLC, ODS [CIS], 4.6 mm x 25 cm and 0.5 micro m, using a mobile phase of ammonium acetate buffer [the pH was adjusted to 4.5 +/- 0.05 with glacial acetic acid], acetonitrile and methanol [35:30:35 v/v]. The buffer used in the mobile phase contains ammonium acetate in double-distilled water. The chromatographic conditions are- flow rate of 1.5ml/min, column temperature at 40°C and detector wavelength of 237 nm. Both the drugs were well resolved on the stationary phase and the retention times were around 1.5 minute for atenolol and 3.4 minute for amlodipine. The method was validated and shown to be linear for atenolol and amlodipine. The correlation coefficients for atenolol and amlodipine are 0.999963 and 0.999979, respectively. The relative standard deviations for six replicate measurements in two sets of each drug in the tablets is always less than 2% and mean% error of active recovery not more than +/- 1.5%. The method was validated for precision and accuracy. The proposed method was successfully applied to the pharmaceutical dosage forms containing the above-mentioned drug combination without any interference by the excipients