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R. Sathish ¹, P. Sravan Kumar ¹, K. Natarajan ¹, N. Sridhar ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Pharmacology, Ultra College of Pharmacy, Madurai, IN

Abstract

The methanolic extract of stem bark of Butea monosperma Lam (MEBM) was studied for the hepatoprotective and antipyretic activities. Carbontetrachloride (1ml/kg, i.p) induced hepatotoxicity and Brewer's yeast (10ml/kg, s.c) induced pyrexia rat models were used. The 10 days treatment of MEBM (200 mg/kg and 400 mg/kg, p.o) showed significant (P<0.01) hepatoprotective effect by dose dependent manner. The MEBM significantly (P<0.01) lowered the elevated levels of serum biochemical parameters such as SGOT, SGPT, ALP, total bilirubin and also significantly (P<0.01) increased total protein levels when compared to toxic control rats. The MEBM at both dose levels (200 mg/kg and 400mg/kg, p.o) produced significant (P<0.01) antipyretic activity throughout the observation period up to 6 h. The phytochemical analysis showed the presence of biologically active constituents such as flavonoids, glycosides and sterols. The flavonoids in the MEBM may be responsible for the significant hepatoprotective and antipyretic activities.

Keywords

Hepatoprotective, Antipyretic, Butea monosperma, Flame of Forest.

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P. Sravan Kumar ¹

Affiliations
1 Indian Plumbing Association, Hyderabad, Telangana, IN

Abstract

The hotel sector is expected to generate 2.3 million jobs in the coming year. The country has moved up 13 positions to 52nd rank from 65th in tourism and travel competitive index. The domestic tourism visits grew by 15.5 per cent during 2016, and foreign tourist arrivals on e-visa has more than doubled to over 10 lakhs. International hotel chains are expanding their investments in India and are likely to account for about 50 per cent of hotel rooms by 2022, from the current 44 per cent.

Since 1960, some 15,000 papers were presented across the world discussing guest satisfaction (Ekici et al. 2004, p. 189), but very little attention has been paid to the value perception and expectations guests have towards product delivery and satisfaction. Considering that guest expectations have gone up in the past 30 years and continue to do so, it is not an easy task for hotels to stay competitive and profitable unless they take guest complaints seriously and resolve the issues.

Guests are likely to search for evidence of value and satisfaction from three distinct sources: 1. People, 2. Process, and 3. Physical environment. (Petrick, 2004, p.398). Though there are a number of variable paradigms, this paper aims to explore a. The reasons for guest complaints, and 2. The processes hotels apply to resolve the guest complaints.

In this background, it is essential to explore and understand the issues concerning guest complaints. This paper primarily aims at understanding (a) what prompts a guest to raise a complaint, (b) what are the various processes open to hotels to resolve them, and (c) how does a fully resolved complaint effect a guest. This will be a qualitative research paper and will involve a survey through a structured questionnaire with random sampling, along with existing literature review.

Keywords

Guest Satisfaction, Complaints, Redressal.

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Monica Chopra ¹, Asish Bhaumik ², A. Gopi Reddy ³, P. Sravan Kumar ⁴, B. Srikant ⁵

Affiliations
1 Department of Pharmacy, Meera Bai Institute of Technology, Maharani Bagh, New Delhi-110065., IN
2 Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Teja College of Pharmacy, Kodad, Nalgonda-508206, Telangana State, IN
3 Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Sana College of Pharmacy, Kodad, Nalgonda-508206, Telangana State, IN
4 Department of Pharmacology, Avanthi Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guthapally, Hyderabad-501512, IN
5 Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis and Quality Assurance, Avanthi Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guthapally, Hyderabad-501512, IN

Abstract

Despite the popular belief that watermelon is just water and sugar, watermelon is actually a nutrient dense food. It provides high levels of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants and just a small number of calories. Water melons have become synonymous with summer and picnics, and for good reason. Their refreshing quality and sweet taste help to combat the heat and provide a guilt-free, low maintenance dessert. Along with cantaloupe and honeydew, watermelons are a member of the botanical family Cucurbitaceae. There are five common types of watermelon: seeded, seedless, mini (also known as personal), yellow, and orange. The objective of the present research work was to evaluate in vivo anti diabetic activity of ethanolic extract of water melon (EE-WMN).The present experimental data displayed the blood glucose level 283.5±0.4238–284.2±0.02217 mg/dL mg/dL in STZ induced diabetic rats, which was considered as severe diabetes in the glibenclamide (5 mg/kg) and EE-WMN (100, 200 and 300 mg/kg) treated groups, the peak values of blood sugar and cholesterol and triglycerides significantly reduced on the 21st day, respectively. Hence, this experimental data displayed that the EE-WMN significantly decrease the blood glucose level in diabetic rats but values did not return to those of normal controls. Therefore, the EE- WMN executed anti diabetic activity, when compared with diabetic control. From the present experimental data, here we concluded that EE-WMN displayed potential anti diabetic activity against streptozocin induced rats at 200 and 300 mg/kg. b. wt which was proved by assessment of bioanalytes from serum and urine sample and this anti diabetic activity was mainly due to the presence of carotenoids lycopene which was characterized by UV, FT-IR, 1H and 13C-NMR, APCI, HPLC spectrometry.

Keywords

Anti Diabetic, STZ, Triglycerides, FT-IR and APCI etc

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