Inflammation: Natural Resources and Its Applications

Mr. Parag Jain, M.Pharm Pharmacology, Assistant Professor in Department of Pharmacology, Columbia Institute of Pharmacy, Raipur. He completed his master's degree in 2013 from Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekanand Technical University (Columbia Institute of Pharmacy, Raipur). He has been honoured by Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc), Bangalore in 2012 for promotion towards research and selected for P.C. Dandiya prize for poster presentation on anti-inflammatory activity of Artesunate in 2013. He was involved in edge cutting research work at Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (IIIM), CSIR, Jammu for 6 months and All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi for 2 months during his master's, where he got expertise in toxicity testing, preclinical studies, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, with equal inclination to ethnopharmacology. His areas of interest include neuropharmacology, toxicology, molecular biology, diabetes, ethnopharmacology and so on. He has recognized publications in national and international journals to his credit and few more in pipeline. His present work lies on exploring the natural sources for treating type-2 diabetes. Dr. Ravindra Pandey, PhD Pharmacognosy, Associate Professor in Department of Pharmacognosy, Columbia Institute of Pharmacy, Raipur, India is a renowned academician in the field of Medicinal plants. His specific area of research is phytochemistry, natural products and herbal medicines. He has more than 10 years of teaching and professional experience. He has several research papers published in national and international journals. He is an approved examiner and paper setter of different Indian Universities. He has a long standing interest in teaching at the PG level and is involved in taking courses in pharmacognosy, microbiology, and isolation and standardization of herbal drugs. Dr. Shiv Shankar Shukla, PhD Technology, is a Professor in Department of Pharmacognosy, Columbia Institute of Pharmacy, Raipur. He completed his PhD in the development of quality control parameters of some formulations containing herbals in 2012. His area of research interest is spectroscopic and fingerprinting of herbal formulations. He has 7.5 years of teaching experience. He has been awarded with Young Scientist of Chhattisgarh from Chhattisgarh Council of Science and Technology under the discipline of medical science and pharmaceutical science and Dr. P.D. Sethi annual award for the best paper on TLC densitometric fingerprint of 6-Gingerol in 2010. He has more than 27 publications to his credit.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Inflammation.- 3. Inflammatory Mediators.- 4. Natural sources of anti-inflammation.- 5. Experimental models for inflammation.- 6. Inflammation and lifestyle.- Summary and Discussion.