Volume 48, Issue 2

Pharmaceutical Education

1. Article

   Pharmacy Education system in India: Time to revisit teaching and training modules to meet global expectation

   Kotamballi N Chidambara Murthy, M. Pharma, D R&D, PhD

   pp. 1–3 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.48.2.1 · 2014

   The focus of higher education has witnessed a paradigm shift from mere addressing the needs of literacy to cater to wider global challenges. With success of opportunity based learning, it is clear that higher education s…

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2. Article

   Problem-based Learning in Medicinal Chemistry Laboratory from Pharmacy Students’ Perspective

   Ensieh Masoud Hamidi Ravari, Esmat Nouhi

   pp. 4–8 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.48.2.2 · 2014

   The aim of this research was to assess advantages and disadvantages of the modified version of PBL in Medicinal chemistry laboratory courses Method: This research was a self-control trial which means that the training me…

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3. Article

   State Anxiety, Stress and Burnout Syndrome Among Community Pharmacists: Relation With Pharmacists’ Attitudes and Beliefs

   Dragana D. Jocic, Dusanka M. Krajnovic

   pp. 9–15 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.48.2.3 · 2014

   State anxiety, work-related stress and burnout syndrome have been truly documented in health care workers. This research is focused to analize the relation of self-assessed degrees of state anxiety, work-related stress l…

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4. Article

   Pharmocology Research in India: A Scientometric Analysis of Publications Output, 2003–12

   Mueen Ammed K.K, Ritu Gupta, B.M. Gupta

   pp. 16–34 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.48.2.4 · 2014

   The study analyses the performance of Indian pharmacological research during the last ten years (2003–12) using publications data covered in Scopus database, based on several parameters including global publication share…

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5. Article

   Promoieties Used In Prodrug Design: A Review

   Dhokchawle B. V, Gawad J. B., Kamble M. D., Tauro S. J., Bhandari A. B.

   pp. 35–40 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.48.2.5 · 2014

   Despite the success of various prodrugs, surprisingly no other reviews except a review on amino acids as promoieties, which elaborates about amino acids as prodrugs have been published to date. Therefore, we hope that th…

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6. Article

   Formulation of Gastroretentive Floating Drug Delivery System of Indomethacin

   Shukla T., Pandey S. P., Patil U.K.

   pp. 41–47 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.48.2.6 · 2014

   Indomethacin (NASID) is used as potent anti-inflammatory drug with prompt antipyretic action, mainly used for the treatment of osteoarthritis with half-life of 4.5 hours. The basic objective of present work was to prepar…

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7. Article

   Development and Validation of Stability-Indicating RP-HPLC Method for Determination of Indapamide and Amlodipine Besylate

   Santosh V. Gandhi, Madhuri M. Karad, Padmanabh B. Deshpande

   pp. 48–54 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.48.2.7 · 2014

   A new simple, accurate, precise and selective stability- indicating high performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) method was developed and validated for simultaneous estimation of Amlodipine Besylate and Indapamide in t…

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8. Article

   Effect of vasectomy on testis and epididymis in adult male Swiss albino mice: Histological and histometric study

   Umarani S, Sivaraj R, Parasuraman S, Gunasekaran JP

   pp. 55–64 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.48.2.8 · 2014

   Objective: To study the short- and long-term effects of vasectomy on the testis and epididymis in adult male Swiss albino mice. Methods: Healthy adult male Swiss albino mice were divided into three groups, viz., control …

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9. Article

   Estimation of Asiatic acid, Asiaticoside and Madecassoside in two accessions of Centella asiatica (L) Urban for Morpho-chemotypic variation

   Abhishek Gupta, Shikhar Verma, Pradeep Kushwaha, Sharad Srivastava, AKS Rawat

   pp. 65–69 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.48.2.9 · 2014

   Two morphologically distinct accessions of Centella asiatica (SL and LL) from Indo-Gangetic plains of India were compared in relation to the levels of triterpenoid saponins. The plant was evaluated through its morphology…

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10. Article

    A Study On Incidence and Management of Preeclampsia In a Tertiary Care Hospital

    Manjusha Sajith, Vandana Nimbargi, Amit Modi, Ronak Sumariya, Atmaram Pawar

    pp. 70–76 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.48.2.10 · 2014

    Background: Preeclampsia is a syndrome characterized by hypertension and proteinuria that occurs during the second and third trimester of pregnancy. It is a life threatening, multi-organ involvement disease and remains t…

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11. Article

    Comparative Wound Healing Activity of two Polyherbal Formulations GC-01 and GC-02 on Experimentally induced Wounds in Rodents

    Purnima Ashok, Nishi Gupta, Niranjana Murthy, Renuka Shukla, G Rohita Sri

    pp. 77–86 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.48.2.11 · 2014

    The present study was undertaken to support the use of herbs in folklore medicine for wound healing activity. In the present investigation, a comparative study and screening was done on two polyherbal formulations GC-01 …

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12. Article

    Spectrophotometric Method For Simultaneous Estimation of Montelukast Sodium and Ebastine in Bulk and Their Combined Tablet Dosage Form

    Nikita N. Patel, Nikesh S. Rana, Rajesh K. S, Parag R.Patel, Ujjaval Limbachiya, T. Y. Pasha

    pp. 87–91 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.48.2.12 · 2014

    A simple spectrophotometric method has been developed for simultaneous estimation of Montelukast Sodium and Ebastine from tablet dosage form. Absorbance correction method in which absorbance is measured at two wavelength…

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