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Can you provide me the syllabus of GITAM Admission Test (GAT) for admission in M.Pharmacy in Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management (GITAM)?

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The syllabus of GITAM Admission Test (GAT) for admission in M.Pharmacy in Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management (GITAM) is as follows:

Section A: PHARMACEUTICS

1. Physical Pharmacy: States of mater, Physical properties of drug molecules, pH, buffers and isotonic solution, solubility phenomena, surface tension, interfacial phenomenon, Kinetics, Rheology, Micromeretics & powder flow, Diffusion and dissolution, Colloids, Complexation and protein binding.

2. Pharmaceutical Engineering: Stoichiometry, Fluid Flow, Heat Transfer, Evaporation, Distillation, Drying, Size Reduction, Size Separation, Mixing, Material Handling System, Filtration & Centrifugation, Crystallization, humidification, air conditioning and refrigeration, Material of Plant Construction, Corrosion and Plant lay out.

3. Pharmacy Practice: Professional Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical jurisprudence including Drugs and Cosmetics Act 1940 and rules 1945. Pharmacy Act 1948, Code of Pharmaceutical ethics Prescription: definition, various parts of prescription and their functions, handling of prescription, sources of errors, care required in dispensing procedures including labeling of dispensed products, preliminary knowledge of important Latin terms used in the prescriptions and their translation in to English. Posology: Definition, Factors affecting dose selection. Calculation of children and infant doses

4. Pharmaceutical Technology: Principles, Formulation, Ingredients, method of manufacture, evaluation, quality control tests, labeling and packaging of following class of product: Solid dosage forms- Tablets, coating, capsules, microcapsules, powders, granules etc. Liquid dosage forms- solutions, suspensions, emulsions, Semisolid dosage forms- ointment, creams, gels, suppositories, Parenterals- injections small volume, large volume, ophthalmic preparations and Pre-formulation studies, Stability studies and Pharmacopoeal specifications for various formulations. Formulation of cosmetics preparation like lipstick, shampoo, creams, nail preparations and dentifrices, powers etc.

5. Biological Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology: Principles and methods of microbiological assays of the Pharmacopoeia. Methods of preparation of official sera and vaccines Serological and diagnostics tests Applications of microorganisms in bio conversions and in pharmaceutical industry

6. Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics and their importance in formulation. Introduction to biopharmaceutics: Drug absorption, distribution, metabolism and elimination. Compartment model- Definition and Scope Pharmacokinetics of drug absorption - Zero order and first order absorption rate constant. Determination of pharmacokinetic parameters Bioavailability and bioequivalence: Measures of bioavailability, Cmax, tmax, Kel and Area Under the Curve (AUC); Review of regulatory requirements for conducting bioequivalent studies. Biopharmaceutical Classification System (BCS) of drugs.

Syllabus GITAM Admission Test (GAT) for M.Pharmacy GITAM