ISSN: 2456-7264 | Issue – 30 | Published On 19/09/2024 |
Prologue I had an opportunity to listen to a talk delivered by the Padma Bhusan P. Balram, IISc Bangalore, India on one of the foundation day lectures of Institute of Advanced Studies in Science and Technology (IASST), Guwahati, India. The talk had covered proteinaceous toxins (prTs) produced by animals. Interestingly many
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A hospital-acquired infection (HAI), also known as a nosocomial infection, is an infection that is acquired in a hospital or other health care facility. An infection is considered nosocomial if it develops in a patient who has been hospitalized for 48 to 72 hours and the same infection was not
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Noni, popularly known as Indian Mulberry (Family: Rubiaceae), is a ‘wonderful medicinal plant’ which is being used as a source of medicine in many of the traditional health management systems. NONI can be elaborated as N-Natural, O-Oxidative stress reducer, N-Nutritional supplement, I-Immune enhancer. It is an evergreen small tree distributed
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Historical Perspective The original concept of the pharmacophore was developed by Paul Ehrlich during the late 1800s. At that time, the understanding was that certain “chemical groups” or functions in a molecule were responsible for a biological effect, and molecules with similar effect had similar functions in common. The word pharmacophore was
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