Study of drug prescribing patterns by specialists and general practitioners in tikrit city

An 800 prescriptions were collected from all pharmacies in Tikrit city to study the drug prescribing patterns by specialist and general practitioners. The study showed that antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs followed by tonics and cough preparations were the most fervently prescribed drugs. 294 pharmacodynamic interactions were recorded in this study. 270 were desired and 24 were undesired. 9 pharmacokinetic interactions were also recorded, only one of these interactions was desired. However, undesired interactions either pharmacokinetic or pharmacodynamic were most common in the specialist prescriptions

Effect of aspirin on the immune response in rabbits

Twenty adult New Zealand white rabbits were divided into four equal groups. The first three groups were orally administered with 100, 200 and 400 mg/kg B.W./day of aspirin respectively for 14 days to study the effect of aspirin on the immune reponse in the rabbits. The results showed that the aspirin induced a significant increase of the WBCs in a the dose 100 and 200 mg/kg B.W. and this effect was pronounced in group which received 400 mg/kg B.W. However, the percentage of lymphocytes was also significantly elevated while the monocytes and basophils showed decline