Volume 53, Issue 1

S.K. Kulkarni

pp. 1–4 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.53.1.1 · 2019

In 1967-68 I was studying in the final year (1967-68) of the B. Pharmacy course in the Government College of Pharmacy, Bangalore (now Bengaluru) in Karnataka. There was so much of halla gulla about Medicinal Chemistry pr…

Hitesh Chavda, Suresh Kumar Neerumalla, Axay Patel, Sanjay Poptani

pp. 5–7 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.53.1.2 · 2019

The backbone of any successful robust pharmaceutical product is built on their excipients. Excipients show a vital role in the dosage form design. Excipients do not have therapeutic activity, however, they influence the …

Avtar Chand Rana, Bhawna Gulliya

pp. 8–20 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.53.1.3 · 2019

Several modern and most of the traditional drugs have been developed from natural sources. Flavonoids or bioflavonoids, most ubiquitous polyphenolic compounds, are secondary metabolites of plants and fungal origin. Apart…

Aindrila Biswas

pp. 21–27 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.53.1.4 · 2019

Background: Concern over sustainability awakened firms to take responsive strategies and propagate sustainability. The present study tries to enumerate the role of strategic marketing orientation classified as market-ori…

Marudut Sinaga, Manihar Situmorang, Wesly Hutabarat

pp. 28–41 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.53.1.5 · 2019

Background: Improving students competence to provide appropriate knowledge and skills to deal with professional works becomes a challange in education nowdays. Objectives: This research is aimed to develop and implement …

Sai Krishna Gudi

pp. 42–47 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.53.1.6 · 2019

Background: Although clinical pharmacy is considered as one of the most vibrant and exigent professions, when it comes to the recognition, scope and the career opportunities for Pharm D professionals are ill-defined in t…

Erwin Martinez Faller, Maria Theresa Hernandez, Aaron Mark Hernandez, Ashutosh Kumar Verma

pp. 48–53 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.53.1.7 · 2019

Background: Clinical Pharmacists are dependent on assessment tools to evaluate the competency skills of student interns. Aim: This study aims to examine the perception of Clinical Pharmacists towards the standardization …

Dan Nicolae Păduraru, Daniel Ion, Adriana Elena Nica, Florentina Coman, Octavian Andronic, Alexandra Bolocan

pp. 54–60 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.53.1.8 · 2019

Objectives: This study aims to evaluate the main stress factors for the pharmacist in the community pharmacy in Romania and how the pharmacists manage the tensions generated by professional ethics, patient attitudes and …

Alessandra Rezende Mesquita, Werlissandra Moreira de Souza, Aline Santana Dosea, Sabrina Cerqueira Santos, Denise Bueno, Angelo Roberto Antoniolli, Wellington Barros da Silva, Divaldo Pereira de Lyra Júnior

pp. 61–69 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.53.1.9 · 2019

Background: the aim of this article was to obtain the opinions of a pharmacist teachers group regarding the pharmaceutical care course model most suited to Brazil. Methods: five teachers of pharmaceutical care courses in…

Jiaqi Li, Changqing Yang, Madiha Madiha

pp. 70–78 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.53.1.10 · 2019

Background: Clinical pharmacy training is to help students master the skills of clinical pharmacy services and increase students’ confidence in their ability to perform clinical roles effectively. Objective: This study a…

Shafi Habibi, Seyede Nasrin Fatemi, Leila Doshmangir

pp. 79–87 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.53.1.11 · 2019

Objective:This research is aimed at exploring the evaluation of information credibility and its related criteria from the viewpoints and experiences of PhD students in pharmacy in Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, I…

Adhikrao Vyankatrao Yadav, Mukund Namdeo Urade

pp. 88–96 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.53.1.12 · 2019

Objective: The objectives of present investigation were to develop transdermal system for Lornoxicam using chitosan as rate controlling polymer and Tween 20 as permeation enhancer. Then evaluate the effect of Tween 20 on…

Anusha Palekar, Kshitija Kambli, Sanjay Pai

pp. 97–103 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.53.1.13 · 2019

Objective: Two or more ester drugs in multicomponent formulations are likely to exhibit errors during analysis under acidic conditions, possibly due to hydrolysis. UV Spectrometric methods are hard to disseminate such ph…

Dhruv Jha, Papiya Mitra Mazumder

pp. 104–111 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.53.1.14 · 2019

Objective: To investigate the effect of hydro-ethanolic fraction of leaves of M. longifolia (J. Koenig) on high fat diet induced metabolic disorder. Methods: The M. longifolia extract was obtained from the successive ext…

Dexin Xu, Jing Yang, Wenchen Yu, Jie Wei

pp. 112–116 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.53.1.15 · 2019

Aim: Aging is the greatest risk factor for most neurodegenerative diseases. Cardiovascular circulatory system is an important part of maintaining normal human life activities. The core of the aging process is DNA damage,…

Srujana Muthadi, Baswaraju Macha, Prashanthi Mamidi, Sravanthi Manchinella, Achaiah Garlapati, Raghuram Rao Akkinepalli

pp. 117–126 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.53.1.16 · 2019

Background: Flavonoids encompasses flavones, isoflavones, flavanones and flavanols each possessing the benzopyranone ring system as the common structural feature, were identified as potent nonsteroidal aromatase inhibito…

Atiskumar Chattopadhyay, Soumendra Darbar, Srimoyee Saha, Parimal Karmakar

pp. 127–132 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.53.1.17 · 2019

Objective:Effect of Benzodiazepine group of drugs Alprazolam is investigated on different vital organs of Wister albino rat. Materials and Methods: The rats (n=6) were treated with normal doses of Alprazolam for two mont…

Juhi Saxena, Seema Saroj, Priya Virendrakumar Shah, Sadhana Rajput

pp. 133–143 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.53.1.18 · 2019

Objective: A state of the art, robust and environmentally benign stability indicating assay method (SIAM) has been developed for model drug Lenalidomide (LEN). Methods: A Green metrics assessment was conducted by environ…

Dilsat Bozdogan Konuskan, Onder Kamiloglu, Ozge Demirkeser

pp. 144–150 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.53.1.19 · 2019

Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the influence of two different extraction methods on the fatty acid composition, total phenolic content and antioxidant activity of grape seed oils obtained from 5 different va…

Anupam Jamwal, Suresh Kumar

pp. 151–159 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.53.1.20 · 2019

Background and Objective:Coccinia indica Wight. and Arn (Ivy gourd, family Cucurbitaceae) has a long tradition of use in the treatment of various ailments. Ayurveda and Unani systems claim C. indica as antidiabetic agent…