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Debjani Sarkar

pp. 25-35 · DOI: 10.5530/ijpi.2019.2.7 · 2019

India houses a wide variety of plants with medicinal properties on account of being a megadiversity country. Spices, comprising different parts of a plant (seeds, bark, etc.), are substances used for adding flavor to and…

Nihar Ranjan Kar

pp. 36-42 · DOI: 10.5530/ijpi.2019.2.8 · 2019

Radiopharmaceuticals are exclusive medicinal formulations including radio isotopes which are utilized in foremost clinical areas for study, diagnosis and/or therapy. They are radioactive agents employed in nuclear medica…

Surojeet Das, Parul Johri, Ruchi Sharma, Monika Kashyap, Shivani Singh, Sachidanand Singh

pp. 43-46 · DOI: 10.5530/ijpi.2019.2.9 · 2019

Background: In the absence of the experimentally determined structure, computer aided protein structure prediction, evaluation and their energeti cally stable structure identification is the only way out of the problem. …

Shweta Agarwal, S.L. Hari Kumar, Rajeev Garg

pp. 47-52 · DOI: 10.5530/ijpi.2019.2.10 · 2019

Aim: Nanostrucured Lipid Carriers (NLCs) are the 2nd generation of Solid Lipid Nanoparticles (SLNs) designed to overcome limitations of SLNs. Their characteristics can be modulated by variations in formulation and proces…

Sabyasachi Biswal, Sumanta Mondal, Prasenjit Mondal

pp. 53-58 · DOI: 10.5530/ijpi.2019.2.11 · 2019

Objectives: The present article involved the development of sensitive and validated reverse phase liquid chromatographic and UV-spectrophotometric method for the determination of etodolac in bulk and pharmaceutical dosag…

B. M. Gupta, K K Mueen Ahmed

pp. 59-66 · DOI: 10.5530/ijpi.2019.2.12 · 2019

The present study examined 2008 global publications on Withania somnifera, as indexed and covered in international Scopus database during 1995-2018, with a view to understand their publications growth rate, global public…

Varsha Shelke, Meeta Bhot

pp. 67-70 · DOI: 10.5530/ijpi.2019.2.13 · 2019

Background: The presence of phytochemical constitutes has been reported from species of the family Asclepiadaceae. No reports exist on the phytochemical components and biological activity of leaf and stem of Asclepi as c…

Lohith Mysuru Shivanna, Halugudde Nagaraja Sarjan, Asna Urooj

pp. 71-75 · DOI: 10.5530/ijpi.2019.2.14 · 2019

Background: Annona reticulata (AR) or custard apple belongs to family Annonaceae. The plant is traditionally used to treat various ailments and is also known for its medicinal properties. Objectives: The aim of this re s…

Salma Saeed Abbas

pp. 76-79 · DOI: 10.5530/ijpi.2019.2.15 · 2019

Background: Hypertension is well confirmed as a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Researches in the treatment of hypertension has produced a multitude of drug classes with different efficacy profiles, which i…

Doa’a Anwar Ibrahim, Abdulsalam Halboup

pp. 80-84 · DOI: 10.5530/ijpi.2019.2.16 · 2019

Background: The self-medication practice (SM) has increased worldwide for treating mild ailments without medical consultation and drug prescription. Health information background and proper SM may have positive outcomes.…

Mohammed Abidullah, Prashant Nahar, Syed Afroz Ahmed

pp. 85-88 · DOI: 10.5530/ijpi.2019.2.17 · 2019

Background: Though various biological markers are available for improving the diagnostic accuracy early detection of disease progression remains a challenging task mainly due to lack of adequate early prognostic marker. …