The department have two separate labs (one Human Anatomy and physiology lab and other for pharmacology lab) and CPCSEA approved animal house.
• Resources in the form of CD-ROMs, on line databases, audio video cassettes, ebooks, E- journals and e- standards are available.
• The lab is fitted with conventional & advanced equipments like:
▪ Digital Sherrington’s Kymograph machine with Perspex bath assembly.
▪ Actophotometer.
▪ Digital Rotarod Apparatus with computer attached.
▪ Cook’s Pole climbing apparatus.
▪ Analgesiometer (Eddy’s hot plate).
▪ Convulsiometer.
▪ Plethysmometer.
▪ Centrifuge.
▪ Software for simulated animal experiments.
▪ Trinocular microscope.
▪ Semi-Autoanalyzer from Erba, Germany
▪ Haemocytometer
▪ Haemoglobinometer
▪ Elevated plus maze apparatus.
▪ Radial Arm Maze.
▪ Y maze.
▪ T maze.
▪ Tail Suspension board.
▪ Physiograph.
Animal house
• The College has a CPCSEA recognized central animal house facility. The animals
are housed as per the standard guidelines.
• Well-equipped animal experimentation laboratories are situated adjacent to the
animal house. Experiments on mice, rats are routinely carried out with a prior
approval from the Institutional Animal Ethics Committee (IAEC).
Research Expertise:
• Toxicological Studies
• Antifertility studies
• Anticancer Activity
• Anti-Inflammatory Studies
• Diuretic Studies
• Anti-Diarrhoeal Studies
• Hepatoprotective Studies
• Anti-Diabetic Studies
• Immunomodulatory Studies
• Ulcer Protective Studies
• Neuroprotective Activity
• Neuro-psychological studies.
Thrust areas of research in this department include:
1) Neurosciences and neurodegenerative disorders
2) Herbal screening
3) Toxicological studies
4) Pharmacological & molecular studies on of
• natural products, herbal active constituents and small molecules in various
animal disease models of Cancer, diabetes, hypertension,
hypercholesterolemia, atherosclerosis, peptic ulcer, fertility
5) Pharmacological Screening using bioassay procedures
6) Computer aided Learning
7) The department is advancing its research facilities to extend our service to industries
and other research organizations
Consultancy
The department is advancing its research facilities to extend our service to industries and
other research organizations in the areas of,
1) Cytotoxicity screening
✓ MTT assay
✓ Apoptotic assay
✓ Antimitotic activity
✓ Antiangiogenic activity
✓ Cell proliferation assay
✓ RNA isolation and reverse transcription
✓ Gene expression analysis (RT-PCR)
2) Anticancer studies (Invitro and invivo)
✓ Invivo induction of cell line tumors
✓ Evaluation of tumors
3) Antifertility
4) Antiinflammatory
5) Antidiabetic
6) Neuroprotectives and neurodegenerative disorders
7) Laboratory examination and estimation of blood using autoanalyzer (animals and
human)
8) Docking studies
✓ Chemsketch
✓ PASS prediction
✓ ADMET
✓ Molecular docking with PyRx
9) Animal studies
10)Software uses
- Sigma plot
- Graphpad prism
- Graphpad instat
- Ex-pharm