Volume 49, Issue 2

Andrzej Polski, Agnieszka A. Kaczor, Karolina Sobotka-Polska, Monika Pitucha

pp. 82–87 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.49.2.1 · 2015

Classical medicinal chemistry classes do not give satisfactory learning outcomes. Computing and communication technology have a great impact on all aspects of cognition, education and training. Thus, the field of compute…

Gayathri Vishwanath Patil

pp. 88–92 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.49.2.2 · 2015

Researchers and academicians for various reasons find themselves in a situation of divulging more than required and being deprived of recognition and benefit that they deserved. This paper briefly looks into the various …

Mohamed Azmi Hassali, FahadSaleem FahadSaleem, Maryam Farooqui, Tahir Mehmood Khan

pp. 93–98 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.49.2.3 · 2015

Conducting pharmacy practice research is particularly challenging owing to the varied approaches and methods available. While quantitative methodology has been traditionally endorsed as the more scientific method of rese…

Sue Hui Sun, Aziz Zoriah

pp. 99–105 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.49.2.4 · 2015

Health care students, particularly pharmacy students, are believed to experience a higher level of stress as compared to their age-matched peers. This cross-sectional study determined the sources and predictors of stress…

Jelena Manojlović, Verica Jovanović, Andrijana Milošević Georgiev, Jan Gerrit Tesink, Tanja Arsić, Valentina Marinković

pp. 106–111 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.49.2.5 · 2015

Background: Pharmaceutical products can become a potential source of poisoning. The improper disposal of unused medicines is a growing problem throughout the world, with a manifold effect on the cost of health care, publ…

Mariusz Panczyk, Henryk Rebandel, Joanna Gotlib

pp. 112–120 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.49.2.6 · 2015

Aim: Assessment of predictive value of results of maturity exams applied as admission criteria for pharmaceutical studies at the Medical University of Warsaw (MUW) between 2010–2012. Material and methods:Data of 390 stud…

Mahmoud Hashemzaei, Mohammad Amin SadeghiBonjar, Kaveh Tabrizian, Mehrdad Iranshahi, Milad Iranshahy, Ramin Rezaee

pp. 121–125 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.49.2.7 · 2015

Background and purpose: Neuropathic Pain (NP) is a complex and chronic pain which is accompanied by nerve injury. Umbelliprenin (UMB) is a naturally occurring prenylatedcoumarin with anticancer, antioxidant, anti-inflamm…

Basavaraj M Dinnimath, Sunil S Jalalpure

pp. 126–133 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.49.2.8 · 2015

Background: Traditionally known as Pashanabheda in India, Aerva lanata (L) belonging to the family Amaranthaceae, is widely available in Western ghats of India and used as Antiurolithiatic, astringent, diuretic, antimicr…

Ulhas Balkrishna Hadkar, Asavari Sameer Hadkar

pp. 134–139 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.49.2.9 · 2015

Critical micelle concentration is an important characteristic property of a surfactant and various methods such as osmotic pressure, surface tension, interfacial tension, UV-Visible spectrophotometry have been reported t…

Sunit Kumar Sahoo, Sabyasachi Swain, Ramakrishna Sen, Deepika Sahoo

pp. 140–145 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.49.2.10 · 2015

The major hindrance behind the preparation of gellan microbeads by simple ionic gelation technique with aqueous soluble drugs is their low entrapment efficiency and sometimes its faster dissolution characteristics. This …

C. Sasikala, Yajaman Sudhakar

pp. 146–151 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.49.2.11 · 2015

Context: Diabetes mellitus is a group of syndromes characterized by hyperglycemia, altered metabolism of lipids, carbohydrates and proteins and an increased risk of complications from vascular diseases. Filicum decipiens…

Monica Raghavendra Prasad Rao, Swapnil Uttamrao Shelar

pp. 158–167 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.49.2.13 · 2015

There are various approaches commonly used for gastric retention, one of which is raft forming system. Floating oral in situ gel is a type of raft forming system. The present work concerns with the formulation, evaluatio…