Pharmacology ::

The Pharmacology department has one of the most modern and well-equipped facility and is capable of handling new drug discovery activities. The department is equipped with sophisticated instruments for pharmacological and biochemical investigations. Facilities are available to display, record, and analyze experimental data from isolated tissue preparations, and conscious and anaesthetized animals.

Facilities for recording parameters like, isometric and isotonic tissue tensions, pressures etc. in in-vitro studies are available. In addition responses to field stimulation, transmural stimulation and nerve stimulation in a variety of isolated tissue preparations conscious and anaesthetized animals.

Physiological parameters like cardiac output, stroke volume, blood pressure (invasive / non-invasive), flow rate, heart rate, ECG, LVP, dp/dt, respiration, intestinal motility, nerve conduction velocity etc. all could be recorded from a variety of in vivo animal models.

The department can also conduct studies involving various biochemical investigations, ELISA and other immunological methods.

Facilities for general pharmacological studies including Irvin scale and determination of spontaneous and forced motor activity etc. are also available.

This department has recently been equipped with Telemetry Equipment, which is being used for long term non-invasive monitoring of various cardiovascular parameters in rodents.