Clinical Pharmacology & Biopharmaceutics
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Ajit Kumar Thakur

Neuropharmacology Research Laboratory, Department of Pharmaceutics, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi-221 005, India

Biography

He did his  Postgraduate in Pharmacology (M.Pharm.) from IIT (BHU) Varanasi with Fellowship from UGC/MHRD, Govt. of India, and published 3 research papers each in Pharmaceutical Biology, Indian journal of Experimental Biology, and TANG.He has  also written a review and a book chapter as co-author. He  was awarded with INSPIRE Fellowship (JRF/SRF-P) from DST, Govt. of India (Ministry of Human Resource and Development) for Ph.D. in 2011 and did his Ph.D. (Pharmacology) and Human Genetics, BHU, Varanasi. Presently, he is  working as Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and teaching UG/PG theory and practicals.

Publications

Antidepressant-like Activity of Andrographis paniculata in Type-2 Diabetic Rats

Pharmacological observations suggesting antidepressants-like efficacy of a medicinally used Andrographis paniculata extract (AP) in type-2 diabetic are presented in this communication. Efficacies of 10 daily oral doses of 50, 100 and 200 mg/kg/day AP and 15 mg/kg/day imipramine were compared in behavioral despair and learned helplessness tests usin... Read More»

Ajit Kumar Thakur, Shyam Sunder Chatterjee and Vikas Kumar

Research Article: Clinic Pharmacol Biopharmaceut 2014, S2

DOI: 10.4172/2167-065X.S2-003

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