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In this week, I would like to give a brief introduction about an essential autocoid, i.e- histamine, various characteristics associated with it, role played by it and few histamine antagonists used commonly.

1)Histamines—
1.1) Definition and Category--
Histamines come under the category of autocoids (self healing elements of the body derived from two words-‘autos’ meaning self and ‘akos’ meaning healing). Histamines are derived primarily from cells and tissues, as indicated by the word ‘histos’ meaning tissues.
Histamine is chemically β-imidazolylethylamine. It may be represented by the chemical structure as drawn below:

Histamine (β-imidazolylethylamine)

This blog is mainly intended to express my personal feelings and experiences after i came across the advertisement of skills-test-2008.

A notice on College Notice Board...

It was morning time on 14th february, at (near about) 11:30 am when i approached my college notice board to see if any new notice had been put up. I was in a hurry since i had to attend my regular lecture. Suddenly my eyes noticed a paper reading "Skills-Test-2008" being put up on the notice board.I rushed through it vaguely.Basically, I couldn't grasp much of the details in that state of hustle and bustle. I was bit excited and surprised to know what the competition was all about and gave a thought of participating in it.

Afternoon Scenario...

Introduction

Nutrigenomics

is a very recent branch that deals with the effect of nutrients on body, particularly it's genome,proteomics and metabolomics and vice-versa. To explain it in greater depth, it simply means that what effect does nutrients produce on body's transcriptional ability, metabolising process and capacity and also protien synthesis. Nutrigenomics doesn't simply confines within this 'small circle' but extends to even more complex domain of body's homeostasis maintainance and regulation.

Study of Nutrigenomics

Not much has been studied about Nutrigenomics till date and the field is still in it's infant stage. Though study and research is still goin on, but a short method may be described involved in it's study.

In this blog,I would like to put forth details regarding a street play that was conducted by our college on the eve of National Pharmacy Week (NPW).

Objective of Conduction

National Pharmacy Week (NPW) is celebrated by all the pharma colleges spread across India with an aim to promote the status of pharmacy in the nation.

What are Colloids?

Colloidal System is defined as the heterogenous biphasic system in which the dispersed phase ranges within 1-10 angstrom to few micrometres in dimensions.This dispersed phase is nothing but the colloidal particles or colloids.
A colloidal system differs from other heterogenous and homogenous solutions in terms of the size of dispersed phase.
e.g- True solution has a size range of its dispersed phase less than 0.01 micrometre; While that of a heterogenous coarse dispersion varies between 10-1000 micrometres.

Examples of pharmaceutical colloids--silver colloid (germicidal),Iron-dextran injection (official and used in treatment of anaemia administered intramuscularly),Iron-sorbitol injection (consists of citrate,sorbitol and dextran complexed to ferric ions) etc.

Characteristics/Features of Colloids

1) Particle Size

Present Pharma syllabus

Most of the universities of India have nearly same curriculum for B.Pharm course.The only difference lies in the order in which specific topics are arranged in the four years of degree syllabus.The various subjects studied during the four years are listed as follows:

1) Pharmaceutics (including physical pharmacy and biopharmaceutics)
2) Dispensing of Medication and Hospital Pharmacy (DMHP)
3) Biostatistics and Computer Applications
4) Organic Chemistry
5) Inorganic Chemistry
6) Anatomy, Physiology and Health Education (APHE)
7) Pharmacognosy
8) Pathophysiology
9) Pharmacology
10) Pharmaceutical Engineering
11) Pharmaceutical Analysis
12) Pharmaceutical Biochemistry
13) Pharmaceutical Microbiology
14) Medicinal Chemistry
15) Pharmaceutical Jurisprudence
16) Pharmaceutical Management
17) Pharmaceutical Biotechnology

Drawbacks in Present Pharma syllabus

Introduction--

On the eve of National Pharmacy week (NPW), a medical check-up camp was organized by our college within the college premise to avail free medical service to all the residents of the campus.

The medical services offered were:

1)Haemoglobin Count
2)Blood Group
3)Blood Pressure
4)Patient Councelling

Data and Facts--

Nearly, 20 students and 10 staff members had participated in the medical camp.I was included in the team responsible for Hb count. Hence, the current blog reports primarily about the Hb count data,results and conclusions.