Volume 48, Issue 1

S. B. Bhise and A. M. Deshpande

pp. 1–5 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.48.1.1 · 2014

The background under which new accreditation norms have been revised, have been discussed earlier.1 In order to face the actual process of accreditation, one needs to know guidelines and operating procedures for accredit…

Jan Kostriba M.S., Abdullah Alwarafi Ph.D., Prof. Jiri Vlceka

pp. 6–12 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.48.1.2 · 2014

Objective: To ascertain and compare the differences, extent and depth of education in Social Pharmacy and reveal international regional variations. To analyze Social Pharmacy education at different pharmaceutical faculti…

Qiong LI

pp. 13–16 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.48.1.3 · 2014

An important goal of contemporary medical education is to cultivate and improve the comprehensive and innovative abilities of medical students. One significant way to fulfill this goal is to explore the course reform of …

Pereira D.V, Cavaco A.M

pp. 17–26 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.48.1.4 · 2014

Pharmacists are considered medicine specialists referring to minor ailment treatment and self-medication counseling. Although increasingly important in pharmacy training, there are limited initiatives comprising the use …

Dr. Pratima Tatke, Megha Rajan

pp. 27–31 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.48.1.5 · 2014

Conventional extraction techniques like soxhlet extraction and reflux extraction and novel extraction techniques like Supercritical Fluid extraction (SFE), Ultrasonic Assisted Extraction (UAE) and microwave assisted extr…

Surapaneni Krishna Mohan, Mallika Jainu

pp. 32–38 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.48.1.6 · 2014

Background: Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is an emerging disease belonging to the non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) spectrum, which may progress to fibrosis and thereby to cirrhosis of the liver. Currently…

Dadkhah A, Fatemi F, Malayeri M, Jahanbani A, Batebi F, Ghorbanpour Z

pp. 39–48 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.48.1.7 · 2014

In this study, the chemopreventive efficacy of Nigella sativa seed powder as an important chemopreventive herb on the formation of colon tumor has been examined through measuring the levels of hepatic oxidative stress an…

M. Vidyavathi, B. Sarika, S. Varalakshmi

pp. 56–60 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.48.1.9 · 2014

Screening studies were performed using eight fungal organisms for their potential to biotransform the drug fenofibrate to its active metabolite fenofibric acid. Among all fungi screened, only Aspergillus terreus shown an…

Raj Kumar Arya

pp. 61–68 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.48.1.10 · 2014

Bhasmas are the multi elemental drugs derived from natural resources. Physicochemical analysis of various bhasmas supplied by different manufacturers has been reported. Particle size analysis has been done using dynamic …

Monica RP Rao, Priyanka Sadaphule

pp. 69–74 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.48.1.11 · 2014

Buccal route offers excellent opportunities and potential advantages for systemic drug delivery as compared to per-oral administration. The objective of this study was to prepare mucoadhesive tablets of Ketorolac trometh…