Department of Pharmacology

Important Laboratories

Dept. data last updated on :11/04/2024

IMPORTANT LABORATORIES OF THE DEPARTMENT

1. Experimental Pharmacology/ Alternatives to Animal Experimentation Lab:

·       Equipped with LCD projector,

·       Frog heart perfusion assembly, 

·       Multi choice apparatus,

·       Time sense apparatus,

·       Hand steadiness apparatus, 

·       Equipped with Mannequins for hands on training, and sufficient number of desk-top computers,

·       online and offline software for virtual animal experimentation.


2. Clinical Pharmacy Lab: 

·       Equipped with LCD projector,

·       Tablet dissolution apparatus,

·       Tablet Disintegration apparatus,

·       Tablet Friability apparatus,

·       Hardness tester & Balances.

·       Facility for drug formulation preparation,

·       hands on training for starting IV line for MBBS & BDS students.  


3. Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutic Division:

Under this division, the Department is running Drug and Poison Information Cell (DPIC) in collaboration with Dept. of Forensic Medicine and Substance Abuse Treatment Clinic (OPD) in collaboration with Dept. of Psychiatry and Forensic Medicine.

·       Sphygmomanometer,

·       Stethoscope,

·       Haemoglobinometer and Haemocytometer.


4. Post Graduate Research Lab.: 

·       Equipped with Digital Plethysmometer,

·       Digital Analgesiometer,

·       Non-invasive BP instrument,

·       Infra-red actinometer system,

·       Research kymograph,

·       Analgesiometer mark III & mark IV with cold heat stress,

·       Eddy's hot plate,

·       Convulsiometer,

·       Physiograph with transducers for B.P., respiration, muscle contraction, volume displacement,

·       Double tube organ bath,

·       Telethermometer,

·       Temperature recorder,

·       various mazes,

·       Swimming test apparatus,

·       Rota rod apparatus,

·       Analytical balance,

·       Boyles apparatus,

·       Cushney's Myocardiograph lever,

·       ICV cannula,

·       Counting chamber,

·       Cross circulation pump,

·       Various electrodes,

·       Perfusion assembly,

·       Respiration pumps,

·       Electronic stimulators,

·       Poll climbing apparatus,

·       Aggressometer,

·       Stimulators for nerve muscle & muscle preparation,

·       Student Isolated organ bath, Student kymographs,

·       Histamine chamber.


5. Drug Testing & Analytical Lab.:

·       Well-furnished and air-conditioned lab. equipped with Single Pump HPLC apparatus,

·       E.C.L. Double Beam Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer with lamps for measurement of trace elements e.g. Cu, Zn, Pb, Hg, Mg, Mn, Fe etc;

·       ELISA,

·       Double Beam Spectrophotometer,

·       HPLC

·       electronic single pan balance;

·       Double distillation plant & other usable glass wares.


6. Indigenous Lab: All research related to herbs and plants including Unani and Ayurveda medicines. This lab is having Centrifuge machine, Oven, Soxhlet apparatus, etc.