News - November 13th 2007

Animation for Asthma and COPD added in a new Respiratory Disorders page in the Animations section. View it here:
http://pharmaxchange.info/animations_respiratory.html
Asthma and COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease)
Description: A detailed video showing what happens in asthma and other COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases). Mainly shows what goes in asthma in the lungs and at a cellular level the changes which takes place. Shows the different types of treatments available. Then goes on to cover a little bit of COPD as well.
http://pharmaxchange.info/animations_respiratory.html

News - November 12th 2007

Animation added for diuretic action in the kidney. Visit it at:
http://pharmaxchange.info/animations_diuretics.html
Diuretic Action In The Kidney
Description - A very detailed animation showing the working of the kidney and the nephron and the mechanism of action of various diuretics. It is a long 8 minute 47 second animation showing the molecular mechanism of the working of the nephron and the drugs which act on the various different regions of the nephron. It shows the detailed mechanism of action of the diuretics such as the loop diuretics, the potassium sparing diuretics, and the thiazide diuretics.
http://pharmaxchange.info/animations_diuretics.html

News - November 10th 2007

Animation for Parkinson's Disease has been added in the Animations page under the New CNS Disorders section. An excellent animation showing what causes Parkinson's Disease and how parkinsonism is tackled now. It shows what goes wrong in the substantia nigra part of the brain and how acetylcholine (ACH) and Dopamine balance is lost to cause the disease. It talks of the symptoms of the disease, and treatments currently used for the treatment of the disease. View it at http://pharmaxchange.info/animations_cns.html

Notes added for Genetic Engineering and DNA Fingerprinting in the New Biotechnology section in notes.
http://pharmaxchange.info/notes_biotechnology.html

Classroom Presentation on Genetic Engineering:
Slides used by Prof. Vijaya Patil of MET Institute of Pharmacy to teach the topic of Genetic Engineering. It has everything needed to understand the basics of Genetic Engineering including its application, use of restriction enzymes and naming of restriction enzymes, steps in synthesizing a recombinant protein, DNA cloning, cleaving DNA and generating DNA fragments (using methods like mechanical shearing, shotgun method, restriction digest method, hybridization method, reverse transcriptase, and chemical synthesis methods), producing recombinant DNA/ insertion of target DNA into vectors, and Vectors such as plasmids, bacteriophages, cosmids, phage vectors, phasmid, yeast cloning vectors, bacterial and human artificial chromosomes, Shuttle vectors, and vectors used in plants - Ti plasmids. It also covers topics on screening techniques, and library screening.
http://pharmaxchange.info/notes_biotechnology.html

Classroom Presentation on DNA Fingerprinting
Slides used by Prof. Vijaya Patil of MET Institute of Pharmacy to teach the topic of DNA Fingerprinting. Covers topics such as Souther Blotting Technique, Southern Hybridization, Restriction fragment length polymorphism.
http://pharmaxchange.info/notes_biotechnology.html

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News - October 10th 2007

Animations for Mechanism of Action of Antibiotic and other chemotherapeutic agents used against bacteria have been added. Visit now at:
http://www.pharmaxchange.info/animations_chemotherapy.html

View animations on:
1) Animation on Synthesis of Peptidoglycan
http://www.pharmaxchange.info/animations/antibiotics/ppgsyn.html

2) Animation on Mechanism of Action of Penicillins
http://www.pharmaxchange.info/animations/antibiotics/penicillin.html

3) Animation on Mechanism of Action of Vancomycin
http://www.pharmaxchange.info/animations/antibiotics/vancomycin.html

4) Animation on Mechanism of Action of Fluoroquinolones
http://www.pharmaxchange.info/animations/antibiotics/fluoroquinolones.html

5) Animation on Mechanism of Action of Sulfonamides and Diaminopyrimidines
http://www.pharmaxchange.info/animations/antibiotics/sulfonamides.html

6) Animation on Translation of mRNA by tRNA
http://www.pharmaxchange.info/animations/antibiotics/translation.html

7) Animation on Mechanism of Action of Aminoglycosides 1 (Aminoglycosides interfering with the translocation of tRNA from the A-Site to the P-Site)
http://www.pharmaxchange.info/animations/antibiotics/aminoglycoside1.html

8) Animation on Mechanism of Action of Aminoglycosides 2 (Aminoglycosides interfering with the translation by causing misreading of the codons along the mRNA)
http://www.pharmaxchange.info/animations/antibiotics/aminoglycoside2.html

9) Animation on Mechanism of Action of Tetracyclines
http://www.pharmaxchange.info/animations/antibiotics/tetracyclines.html

10) Animation on Mechanism of Action of Macrolides 1 (BlockingTranslation during Bacterial Protein Synthesis: Blocking Peptidyltransferase)
http://www.pharmaxchange.info/animations/antibiotics/macrolides1.html

11) Animation on Mechanism of Action of Macrolides 2 (Blocking Translation during Bacterial Protein SynthesisPreventing the Transfer of the Peptidyl tRNA from the A-site to the P-site)
http://www.pharmaxchange.info/animations/antibiotics/macrolides2.html

12) Animation on Mechanism of Action of Oxazolidinones
http://www.pharmaxchange.info/animations/antibiotics/oxazolidinones.html

News - October 2nd 2007

Pharmacy GATE examination papers added at pharmaxchange.info
View them via this link http://pharmaxchange.info/notes_gate.html

News - September 19th 2007

Chapter on Blood and Blood Products (presentation) in Pharmaceutics has been added.
http://www.pharmaxchange.info/notes_ceutics.html

News - September 5th 2007

Added 17 chapters worth of notes in pharmacology. The link to that section is http://www.pharmaxchange.info/notes_pharmacology.html

Also added notes for fibres in the Pharmacognosy section
http://www.pharmaxchange.info/notes_pharmacognosy.html

News- August 15th 2007

Added notes for pharmacognosy for the chapter of Alkaloids.
They are comprehensive notes taken in the lecture of alkaloids. Contains drugs of the following classes- Indole Alkaloids (Ergot, Vinca, Nux vomica, Rauwolfia), Tropane Alkaloids (Belladonna, Stramonium, Coca Leaves), Quinazoline Alkaloids (Vasaka Leaf / Adulsa), Pyridine Alkaloids (Lobelia Herb), Imidazole Alkaloids (Pilocarpus), additional Indole Alkaloids (Calabar Beans, Opium Poppy Plant), Quinoline Alkaloids (Cinchona Bark), Isoquinoline Alkaloids (Ipecac), Pyridine - Piperidine Alkaloids (Tobacco), Proto Alkaloids (Ephedra, Colchicum, Aconite), Pseudo Alkaloids (Coffee, Tea, Kola Nuts / Bissy Seeds, Cocoa Seeds), Steroidal Alkaloids (Kurchi, Ashwagandha), Pyrazoline Alkaloids (Pepper).

You can view the detailed notes either by visiting the Notes Section of PharmaXChange under the heading of Pharmacognosy, OR, you can directly go to the pharmacognosy section by clicking here

News- August 14th 2007

Added some more animations regarding virus life cycles. These animations describe the life cycles of the Hepatitis C Virus and the HIV virus. Check them out in the animations section of the site. OR Click Here to go directly to the Virus Life Cycles page

News- August 9th 2007

The FTP has restarted, and new content will be put up by next week.
There is a requirement for notes in all subjects, so please see if you can contribute any.

News- August 4th 2007

Currently the website is running fine. However, the FTP (file transfer protocol) doesn't seem to be working. I am working on it to make it restart so that I can put up the latest content on it. This should take about a week or two to get things going again. The site is gaining popularity to a great extent. Students and teachers of pharmacy, from all over India are visiting the site and complimenting me for making it, but I must not take credit for running the site, as the site runs only if visitors come to it. So as long as people are visiting it, the site will remain up.

And so the PharmaXChange blog starts

Hey there,
I am Akul Mehta and I am the creator of http://www.pharmaxchange.info
This blog is all about the latest information available on PharmaXChange and any news regarding the site. Keep yourself updated about the site by visiting this blog.