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Scientia Pharmaceutica, Volume 82, Issue 2

June 2014 - 16 articles

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Articles (16)

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
2,709 Views
18 Pages

Development of Press-Coated, Floating-Pulsatile Drug Delivery of Lisinopril

  • Swati C. JAGDALE,
  • Vishnu M. SURYAWANSHI,
  • Sudhir V. PANDYA,
  • Bhanudas S. KUCHEKAR and
  • Aniruddha R. CHABUKSWAR

14 April 2014

Lisinopril is an angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor, primarily used for the treatment of hypertension, congestive heart failure, and heart attack. It belongs to BCS class III having a half-life of 12 hrs and 25% bioavailability. The purpos...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
1,967 Views
11 Pages

PEG–Ursolic Acid Conjugate: Synthesis and In Vitro Release Studies

  • Marina ZACCHIGNA,
  • Francesca CATENI,
  • Sara DRIOLI,
  • Giuseppe PROCIDA and
  • Tiziano ALTIERI

6 April 2014

A highly water-soluble macromolecular compound of ursolic acid with mono-methoxypoly(ethylene glycol) (mPEG) was prepared. The physicochemical properties and stabilities under different conditions were investigated. By PEG conjugation, greatly increa...

  • Correction
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,977 Views
2 Pages

13 March 2014

This is a corrigendum to the article 'Inhibition of Key Digestive Enzymes Related to Diabetes and Hyperlipidemia and Protection of Liver-Kidney Functions by Trigonelline in Diabetic Rats' [Sci Pharm. 2013; 81: 233–246]. Figure 6 is replaced.

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
2,463 Views
8 Pages

Formulation and In Vitro Evaluation of Ofloxacin Tablets using Natural Gums as Binders

  • Amisha K. MISTRY,
  • Chirag D. NAGDA,
  • Dhruti C. NAGDA,
  • Bharat C. DIXIT and
  • Ritu B. DIXIT

10 March 2014

Natural gums are economical, easily available, and useful as tablet binders. In the present investigation, an attempt was made to formulate Ofloxacin tablets using three natural binders, namely Acacia arabica, Hibiscus esculentus, and xanthan gum. Su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,628 Views
16 Pages

27 February 2014

The aim of the current study was to develop a simple, precise, and accurate capillary zone electrophoresis method for the determination of zolpidem tartrate in tablet dosage form. Separation was conducted in normal polarity mode at 25°C, 22 kV, using...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,672 Views
17 Pages

Role of an Ethanolic Extract of Crotalaria juncea L. on High-Fat Diet-Induced Hypercholesterolemia

  • Dinakaran SATHIS KUMAR,
  • Banji DAVID,
  • Avasarala HARANI and
  • Bhaskar VIJAY

20 February 2014

Objective: To evaluate the antihypercholesterolemic effects of 50 mg/kg BW and 100 mg/kg BW per day of an ethanolic extract of Crotalaria juncea Linn (whole plant) by performing in vivo studies. Methods: The effects of oral administration of 50 mg/...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,842 Views
17 Pages

8 February 2014

Osteocare, a herbal formulation, has been found to be very effective in bone mineralization and support of the microstructure of bone tissue. The water-soluble components of Osteocare (WSCO) induced osteogenic activity in human osteoblast-like SaOS-2...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,126 Views
20 Pages

Development and Validation of a UPLC Method by the QbD-Approach for the Estimation of Rabeprazole and Levosulpiride from Capsules

  • Veera Raghava Raju THUMMALA,
  • Raja Kumar SESHADRI,
  • Satya Sankarsana Jagan Mohan THARLAPU,
  • Mrutyunjaya Rao IVATURI and
  • Someswara Rao NITTALA

16 January 2014

Statistical experimental design was used to optimize the chromatographic separations of two pharmaceutical compounds from their respective potential impurities. A fractional factorial design was utilized to study the effects of pH, organic solvent in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,847 Views
14 Pages

16 January 2014

A robust, sensitive, and stability-indicating rapid resolution liquid chromato-graphy method for the simultaneous determination of process impurities and degradation products of lercanidipine hydrochloride in pharmaceutical dosage form was developed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
2,207 Views
12 Pages

Antimicrobial Activity of Novel C2-Substituted 1,4-Dihydropyridine Analogues

  • Petra OLEJNÍKOVÁ,
  • Ľubomír ŠVORC,
  • Denisa OLŠOVSKÁ,
  • Anna PANÁKOVÁ,
  • Zuzana VIHONSKÁ,
  • Katarína KOVARYOVÁ and
  • Štefan MARCHALÍN

12 January 2014

The antimicrobial activity of 3-methyl-5-isopropyl (or ethyl) 6-methyl-4-nitro-phenyl-1,4-dihydropyridine-3,5-dicarboxylate derivatives was evaluated. Prokaryotes (bacteria) appeared to be more sensitive to their antimicrobial activity than were euka...

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