WATER AND ELECTROLYTES: A TEACHER’S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE Welcome, future healthcare professionals! Water forms the major component of body mass. Lack of water increases blood pressure, malfunctions heart, and also results in failure of kidneys. On an average 60% (range 45-70%)…
MINERALS: A TEACHER’S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO MACRO-MINERALS AND MICRO-MINERALS Welcome, future healthcare professionals! Minerals are inorganic elements essential for various physiological functions in the human body. They mostly form complexes with insoluble fibres or phytates in the intestine, which hinders…
METABOLISM: A TEACHER’S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE Welcome, future pharmacists and healthcare professionals! Metabolism consists of a series of reactions occurring within cells of living organisms to sustain life. It is the total of anabolism and catabolism. Dpharmguru’s exam insights: In my…
VITAMINS: A TEACHER’S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE Welcome, future pharmacists and healthcare professionals! Vitamins are organic substances that maintain the normal structure and function of cells. They are mostly obtained from plants or animals, so they are ingested as constituents of plant…
ENZYMES: A TEACHER’S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE Welcome, future pharmacists and healthcare professionals! Enzymes are biological catalysts that are virtually usually proteins. It accelerates the pace of a certain chemical process in the cell. The enzyme is not damaged during the process…
NUCLEIC ACIDS: A TEACHER’S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE Welcome, future pharmacists and healthcare professionals! Nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) are formed by the polymerisation of nucleotide subunits. Nucleotides are made up of a ribose sugar, a nitrogenous base, and phosphate group(s). Deoxyribonucleic…
LIPIDS: A TEACHER’S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE Welcome, future pharmacists and healthcare professionals! The word lipid is derived from the Greek word lipos meaning fat; universally present in all plants and animal cells. They are naturally occurring waxy, greasy, or oily organic…
PROTEINS: A TEACHER’S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE Welcome, future pharmacists and healthcare professionals! Amino acids are the building blocks of all proteins. There are 20 amino acids commonly found in protein. These 20 amino acids are linked together through peptide bonds, forming…
CARBOHYDRATES: A TEACHER’S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE Welcome, future pharmacists and healthcare professionals! Carbohydrates are organic compounds with the general formula Cn(H2O)n. They are composed of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen having the ratio of hydrogen and oxygen atoms as 2:1. These are…
TABLETS: A TEACHER’S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE Welcome, future pharmaceutical scientists and manufacturing professionals! Tablets are solid unit dosage forms of medicaments with or without suitable diluents and prepared either by moulding or compression. According to the Indian Pharmacopoeia, pharmaceutical tablets are…