Volume 55, Issue 1

Souvik Mukherjee, Dilipkumar Pal

pp. 1–10 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.55.1.3 · 2021

Pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo) is capaciously recycled similar to food and in folk medicine throughout the world. It accords to genus Cucurbita (CCT) under family Cucurbitaceae. There are a plenty of important medicinal phyto-…

Gajula Chinna Devi

pp. 11–20 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.55.1.4 · 2021

The Coronavirus (CoV) belongs to family of Coronaviridae, suborder Coronavirinae and Nidovirales order. CoV causes diseases in human with a just cold, cough and high fever symptoms simultaneously develops in to severe re…

Silpa Jalagam, Muddukrishna Badamane Sathyanarayana

pp. 21–25 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.55.1.5 · 2021

Objectives: World Health Organization (WHO) has implemented the Pharmaceutical tendering process for procuring the high-quality medicines from different firms to meet the needs of the countries which are having drug shor…

Zhijian Lin, Yue Li, Bing Zhang

pp. 26–35 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.55.1.6 · 2021

In China, there are two types of pharmacists who work on either Western Medicine (WM) or Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Both are responsible for the provision of pharmaceutical care with safe, effective, efficient a…

Koppala Narayana Sunil Kumar, Kallingil Gopi Divya, Rubeena Mattummal, Bobbili Erni, Parameswaran Sathiyarajeswaran, Kadarkarai Kanakavalli

pp. 36–55 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.55.1.7 · 2021

Siddha system of medicine is a distinct therapeutic science with many single drugs and compound formulations used for treating a broad spectrum of ailments. Siddha categorizes the fever manifested by viral infestation in…

Chengjun Jiang, Guilin Cheng

pp. 56–62 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.55.1.8 · 2021

Objectives: Pharmaceutical engineering experiments are among the most important links in teaching of the pharmaceutical engineering specialty. This study aimed to reform the content of the experiment course for the pharm…

Yolanda Choi, Jiangtao Wang, Yuxi Zhu, Wing-Fu Lai

pp. 63–69 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.55.1.9 · 2021

Background: Pharmacy education is a vital element sustaining the supply of pharmacists to meet the needs in the social and health care sectors. Understanding the perception and expectation of pharmacy students towards th…

Xianmin Hu, Jun Wang, Juan Liu, Yuhang Yao

pp. 70–76 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.55.1.10 · 2021

Background: The importance of pharmacy practitioners’ personality traits in their professional development and future patient-centered pharmaceutical care practice has been widely recognized. Metacognitive skills in crit…

Harsha Kathpalia, Sukanya Das, Supriya Shidhaye

pp. 77–85 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.55.1.11 · 2021

Aim: The present work aimed to tackle the solubility issue of a Biopharmaceutics Classification System (BCS) II drug, Atovaquone. Methods: Formulation of micronized suspension of atovaquone was optimized by employing a 3…

Vedanshu Malviya

pp. 86–94 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.55.1.12 · 2021

Purpose: The main objective of present study is to evaluate the effect of various factors which have direct influence on the characteristic parameters of emulsomes formulation, so that optimized combination of factors ca…

Rohitas Deshmukh, Ranjit Kumar Harwansh

pp. 95–106 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.55.1.13 · 2021

Background: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic inflammatory disease of large intestine consisting of ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. Mesalamine is a first line drug use for the treatment but it has dra…

Soumya Ranjan Satapathy, Rudra Narayan Sahoo, Biswaranjan Satapathy, Ramachandrarao Immani, Lalatendu Panigrahi, Subrata Mallick

pp. 107–116 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.55.1.14 · 2021

Objectives: Polylactic acid (PLA) and copolymer polylactic-co-glycolic acid (PLGA) are the most versatile drug carriers for long acting release injectable (LAI) formulations for small molecules, peptides and macromolecul…

Nagaraja Sreeharsha, Jagadeesh G Hiremath, Prashanth Kumar R, Girish Meravanige, Saleemulla Khan, Ranjith Kumar Karnati, Mahesh Attimarad, Bandar Al-Dhubiab, Anroop Balachandran Nair, Katharigatta Narayanaswamy Venugopala

pp. 117–125 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.55.1.2 · 2021

This study aimed to evaluate DOX∙HCl loaded P(DLLA-CO:60:40) nanoformulations with a copolymer of F127 as a potential drug delivery system for cancer. DOX ∙ HCl was encapsulated in nanoformulations of Poly DL-lactic acid…

Sudhir Kumar, Harikesh Maurya, Sandeep Sandeep, Saikat Sen, Raja Chakraborty

pp. 126–135 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.55.1.15 · 2021

Aim: Lead is a powerful metal which induced neurotoxicity through the degradation of neurons in the body. Various neuronal changes have shown correlation with the generation of free radicals and oxidative stress. The pre…

Atmaram Pawar, Mahesh Chainpure, Vividha Dhapte-Pawar

pp. 136–145 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.55.1.16 · 2021

Aim/Background: The Government of India has initiated different regulations and provisions to provide low cost medicines at affordable rates than the high cost medicines. The government has initiated Jan Aushadhi stores …

Hamed Ibrahim Mira, Nashat Mohamed Alanwar Abdalaty

pp. 146–152 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.55.1.1 · 2021

Introduction: This method was applied to form a non-absorbable complex with uranium and thorium swallowed with contaminated dust or other sources to get rid of them before absorption into the blood and discarded outside …

Niraj Kumar Singh, Debapriya Garabadu

pp. 153–163 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.55.1.17 · 2021

Background/Aim: Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a type of neurodegenerative disorder, possesses significant memory loss as one of the cardinal manifestations. The pathophysiology of AD includes increased accumulation of Aβ, de…

Shamanand Mallapur, Prakash Rajshekhar Biradar, Satish Annayya Kavatagimath, Priyanka Patil, Vishal Patil, Namit Kudatarkar

pp. 164–173 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.55.1.18 · 2021

Objectives: The aim of the study is to assess the anticancer activity of Caesalpinia pulcherrima leaf extract against Erlich Ascites Carcinoma (EAC) in mice. Materials and Methods: BALB/c mice with Erlich Ascites Carcino…

Tathagata Adhikary, Chowdhury Mobaswar Hossain, Sougata Mallick, Samrat Paul, Nisha Banerjee, Piyali Basak

pp. 174–183 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.55.1.19 · 2021

Background and Aim: The goodness of turmeric is claimed traditionally but providing proper scientific data will not only support the statements making it more evident but will also search for possible ways to enhance its…

Mounika Basani, Ramesh Malothu, Rakesh Kumar Sinha, Sindgi Vasudeva Murthy

pp. 184–189 · DOI: 10.5530/ijper.55.1.20 · 2021

Background: Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera), a known traditional medicine used in Ayurveda system of medicine, native to the India. Poor quality sleep always looked as serious complaint as it disrupts sleep. The natural…