Abdul Salam Nazmi

• Doctor of Pharmacy
• Professor (Associate) at National University of Science and Technology, Oman

Anthocyanins are natural, colored, water-soluble plant pigments that belong to the flavonoid, a subclass of the family polyphenol. Common dietary sources of anthocyanins include red and purple berries, grapes, apples, plums, cabbage, and other foods strong in natural colorants. Cyanidin, delphinidin, malvidin, peonidin, petunidin, and pelargonidin...

Pregnant women and children are kept under special group of patients that needs extra efforts while selecting drug therapy for this group of patients. The use of anti-infective medicines in pregnant women and children has several limitations because of altered pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of anti-infectives in these groups of patients, whi...

Oral health plays an important role in the general health and psychological state of the person, which affects general health and quality of life. Although oral health and general health are interrelated, preserving oral health in older age is undoubtedly more challenging with emerging challenges such as providing sufficient dental care. Despite th...

Tobacco epidemic has become one of the biggest public health threats to the world as it kills more than 8 million people annually. The purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence and predictors of waterpipe (shisha) use among Pre-medicine and Pharmacy students in the Muscat region. A validated questionnaire containing 32 questions on shisha...

Pregnant women and children are kept under special group of patients that needs extra efforts while selecting drug therapy for this group of patients. The use of anti-infective medicines in pregnant women and children has several limitations because of altered pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of anti-infectives in these groups of patients, whi...

The aim for this study was to investigate the effect of L-ornithine-L-aspartate (OA) in combination with benzodiazepine agonist (diazepam) and antagonist (flumazenil) in thioacetamide (TAA) induced hepatic encephalopathy (HE) in mice. HE was induced in mice by administration of TAA (25mg/kg, i.p.) thrice at 24 hours interval. OA (2gm/kg, p.o.), dia...

The present study was conducted with the aim of evaluating the protective effects of Bombyx mori, quercetin and benazepril on doxorubicin (DXR) induced cardiotoxicity and nephrotoxicity in rats. B. mori, quercetin and benazepril were administered for 7 days, and a single intravenous injection of 10 mg/kg body weight of DXR on day five. The animals...

Doxorubicin is one of the most active cytotoxic agents in current use. The clinical usefulness of the doxorubicin has been precluded by its marked cardiotoxicity. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of Khamira Abresham Hakim Arshadwala, a well known unani cardiac tonic formulation, pre-treatment on doxorubicin-induced cardiot...

Objective: To assess the antidepressant and anticonvulsant effects of a combination of valproate and melatonin in mice. Methods: The Increasing Current Electroshock Seizure (ICES) test of epilepsy and the Forced Swimming Test (FST) for depression were used. Acute and chronic (8 days treatment) effects of melatonin, valproate and their combination w...