Volume 6, Issue 2

Sam Aaseer Thamby, Parasuraman Subramani

pp. 1–3 · DOI: 10.5530/jyp.2014.2.1

The pharmacist is “a person prepared to formulate, dispense, and provide clinical information on drugs or medications to health professionals and patients.” A pharmacist is a one of the person in health care team, and he…

Ritu Gupta, KK Mueen Ahmed, BM Gupta

pp. 4–13 · DOI: 10.5530/jyp.2014.2.2

The paper analyses high productivity organizations in pharmaceutical science in India, using the publications data indexed and covered in Scopus database from 2008 to 2012. It identifi ed their overall strength of these …

M Ahmed, Ritu Gupta, BM Gupta

pp. 14–24 · DOI: 10.5530/jyp.2014.2.3

Present a bibliometric analysis of 1432 publications in Indian research in atypical antipsychotic drugs during 1998-2013, using publications indexed in Scopus database. The study identifi ed the global publication share …

Raman Palanisamy Priyadharsini, Ramamoorthy Padmapriya

pp. 25–28 · DOI: 10.5530/jyp.2014.2.4

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a rare disease and it is classifi ed into fi ve major categories as per WHO classifi cation. Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) (Category 1) is the increased resistance of pulmonary vasc…

Muaed Jamal Alomar

pp. 29–34 · DOI: 10.5530/jyp.2014.2.5

Aim: The aim was to evaluate the impact of the area of residence on lung capacity as a risk factor for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) among the people of Fujairah, UAE. Settings and Design: After taking the…

Kutub Uddin Muhammad Ashraf, Prosenjit Barua, Ayan Saha, Nur Mahammad, Jannatul Ferdoush, Dipesh Das, Md. Hamed Hussain, Md. Jibran Alam

pp. 35–43 · DOI: 10.5530/jyp.2014.2.6

Objective:This study aims to analyze and predict the possibility of designing a vaccine that could make humans immune to krait toxin. Materials and Methods: Bungarus caeruleus or common Indian krait is a member of the ve…

P Pavan Kumar, TEGK Murthy

pp. 44–49 · DOI: 10.5530/jyp.2014.2.7

Background:The dried blood spot (DBS) technique is a convenient alternative sample collection method to venipuncture. The use of DBS was fi rst widely introduced in the 1960’s by Dr. Guthrie to measure levels of phenylal…

Rakesh Das, Tapan Kumar Pal

pp. 50–57 · DOI: 10.5530/jyp.2014.2.8

Aim:To develop a simple and sensitive liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) method validation for the quantifi cation of mevalonate (MVA), an endogenous compound responsible for synthesis of cholester…

Canna Ghia, Rajesh Jha, Gautam Rambhad

pp. 58–63 · DOI: 10.5530/jyp.2014.2.9

Objective:The objective was to assess of the impact of pharmaceutical advertisements on patients drug consuming behavior. Methodology:This was 6 months cross-sectional survey using a validated open-ended scored questionn…

Leandra Macedo de Araújo Gomes, Sarah Raquel Gomes de Lima-Saraiva, Thayne Mayra Dantas de Andrade, Juliane Cabral Silva, Tâmara Coimbra Diniz, Viviane Nunes Sousa Barreto, Rosemairy Luciane Mendes, Lucindo José Quintans-Júnior, Jullyana Siqueira de Sousa Quintans, Julianeli Tolentino de Lima, Jackson Roberto Guedes da Silva Almeida

pp. 64–69 · DOI: 10.5530/jyp.2014.2.10

Cnidoscolus quercifolius is a species native to the Brazilian Caatinga (semi-arid vegetation) popularly known as “favela” and “faveleira” and used in folk medicine to treat pain. The objective of this work was to evaluat…

Muaed Jamal Alomar, Claire Caroline Strauch

pp. 70–72 · DOI: 10.5530/jyp.2014.2.11

Attention-defi cit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a syndrome of hyperactivity, inattention, and impulsivity. ADHD is defi ned as a neurobehavioral developmental disorder, which is characterized by the presence of both …