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31 January 2017

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21 January 2017

Recruitment for Pharmacist (32 Posts) in Assam Rifles | Government Job

Assam Rifles recruitment rally will be tentatively held from 01 Mar 2017 onwards for enrolment against 614 vacancies from eligible male/female candidates for trades as mentioned in Appendix A

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31 December 2016

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Read more about IPA recommends health ministry to fullstop speculation that referesher course to be started for Unqualified person to handle medical stores

The Indian Pharmaceutical Association (IPA) strongly opposes the ideas which arise through some recent news indicates that there have been discussion regarding enabling the unqualified persons to be "pharmacists" by initiating some training courses. IPA firmly stated that medical stores/pharmacies should be run only in presence and under supervision of qualified, registered pharmacists.

6 December 2016

Evaluation of phytochemicals in some indigenous aromatic medicinal plants of North-East India

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ABOUT AUHTOR
*R SHARMA, S SARMA
Assam Down Town University, Guwahati, Assam, India
*Rupsmita2010@gmail.com

ABSTRACT
Objectives: The aim of the present study was to estimate flavonoid and phenolic content, and to evaluate invitro antioxidant activity of an aqueous extract of Alpinia nigra and Allium tuberosum.
Methods: The air dried stem of A. nigra and leaves of A. tuberosum was ground to powder and extracted with water and 95% of ethanol. The extract was screened for phytochemicals, total phenolic content (TPC) and total flavonoid content (TFC) with its potential antioxidant activities using hydrogen peroxide-scavenging assay.
Results: Phytochemical test shows that extract contains variety of phytochemicals among which there is a high level of total phenol and flavonoids. The total phenolic content (TPC) of A. nigra and A. tuberosum was 0.450±0.0740 and 1.663±0.296; respectively. The total flavonoid content (TFC) of A. nigra and A. tuberosum was 0.322±0.077 and 0.978±0.119, respectively. The plants possessed potent antioxidant activity when compared with the reference compound ascorbic acid (vitamin C).
Conclusions: A. nigra and A. tuberosum may be useful for the preparation of neutraceuticals as potent antioxidant to treat various human diseases and their complications.