2011

January – March

Volume 4

Issue 1

REVIEW ARTICLES

ASTHMA: ALTERNATIVE MANAGEMENT APPROACHES
Sateesh Kumar Vemula, Pandu Raju Turapati, Raja Sridhar Rao Ponugoti, Prasad Garrepally

p. 01

C- REACTIVE PROTEIN IN VARIOUS DISEASE CONDITION – AN OVERVIEW
Pravin V Ingle, Devang M Patel

p. 09

DEVELOPMENT OF ANTI-MIGRAINE DRUGS -CURRENT STATUS AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES
G Mownika,  Dr Sadanandam M

p. 14

ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY (ART): COMBATING INFERTILITY
Ankur Desai, Abhay R Shirode, Mittal Bhanushali, Vilasrao J Kadam

p. 18

NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY: APPLICATION OF NANOTECHNOLOGY IN DIAGNOSIS, DRUG DISCOVERY AND DRUG DEVELOPMENT
Jitendra Kawadkar, Meenakshi K Chauhan, Maheshwari Maharana

p. 23

MONASCUS FERMENTED RICE AND ITS BENEFICIAL ASPECTS: A NEW REVIEW
C Arunachalam, D. Narmadhapriya

p. 29

SJOGREN’S DISEASE: A COMPREHANSIVE REVIEW ON RECENT CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL FINDINGS IN PATHOGENESIS AND PHARMACOTHERAPY
Rohit Bisht, Deepika Sharma

p. 32

RESEARCH ARTICLES

TOXICITIES AND TOLERANCES OF THE CANCER CERVIX PATIENTS
R Baskaran, B Antoinette Mary Nithiya

p. 40

SPECTROFLOURIMETRIC METHOD FOR THE ESTIMATION OF DARIFENACIN IN PURE AND PHARMACEUTICAL FORMULATIONS
P Sai Praveen, G Devala Rao, V Jagathi, M Shaiba, CH Manohar Babu

p. 44

FORMULATION AND EVALUATION OF MOUTH DISSOLVING TABLETS OF FELODIPINE

D Sandeep Kumar, B Ashish Reddy, Amit Kumar Tiwari, B Swetha, Suddhasattya Dey

p. 47

EVALUATION OF ANTIASTHMATIC AND ANTIANAPHYLACTIC ACTIVITY OF BALANITES AEGYPTIACA (DELILE), (BALANITACEAE)
Savita D Patil, Sameer V Ahale, Sanjay J Surana

p. 52

PRELIMINARY ANTI-DIABETIC STUDIES ON AQUEOUS ROOT EXTRACT OF PSEUDARTHRIA VISCIDA LINN
K Rajendran, Annie Shirwaikar, KK Srinivasan

p. 56

SIMULTANEOUS HPTLC DETERMINATION OF LOPINAVIR AND RITONAVIR IN COMBINED DOSAGE FORM
Dhara J Patel, Sapna D Desai, Riddhi P Savaliya, Dipti Y Gohil

p. 59

IN VITRO ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY OF EXTRACTS OF LAWSONIA INERMIS AND PUNICA GRANATUM AGAINST CLINICALLY ISOLATED ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANT PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA AND STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS
Thiyagarajan Santhanamari, Puthukode Ramanathan Meenakshi, Sreekala Velayutham

p. 62

ASSESSMENT OF THE METABOLIC PROFILE IN PATIENTS OF TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS AND HYPOTHYROIDISM THROUGH COMET ASSAY
Nima V Thakkar, Sunita M Jain

p. 66

ANTIHEPATOPROTECTIVE POTENTIAL OF LIVINA, A POLYHERBAL PREPARATION ON PARACETAMOL INDUCED HEPATOTOXICITY: A COMPARISON WITH SILYMARIN
Soumendra Darbar, Abhijit Bhattacharya, Shyamaprasad Chattopadhyay

p. 72

AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF ANALGESIC ACTIVITY OF SELECTIVE COX-2 INHIBITOR WITH CONVENTIONAL NSAIDs
Debasis Mishra, Goutam Ghosh, P Sudhir Kumar, Prasanna Kumar Panda

p. 78

EVALUATION OF IMMUNOMODULATORY ACTIVITY OF AQUEOUS EXTRACT OF FICUS BENGALENSIS AERIAL ROOTSIN WISTAR RATS
Singh MP, Ahirwar J, Muthal N

p. 82

FORMULATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF FAST DISINTEGRATING TABLETS CONTAINING FENUGREEK SEED POWDER
Upendra Kulkarni, Prashant A Borgaonkar, Basawaraj S Patil, Prakash G Korwar

p. 87

STUDY OF ANALGESIC AND ANTI-INFLAMMATORY ACTIVITIES OF THE ETHANOLIC EXTRACT ARIAL PARTS OF FUMARIA VAILLANTII LOISEL
Pankaj Nainwal, Kapil Kalra, Deepak Nanda, Amandeep Singh

p. 90

EVALUATION OF ANTIULCER ACTIVITY OF ZIZYPHUS OENOPLIA (L) MILL. ROOT IN RATS
Suryakant A Jadhav, SM Prasanna

p. 92

DRUG UTILIZATION PATTERN OF ANTIEPILEPTIC DRUGS: A PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGIC AND PHARMACOVIGILANCE STUDY IN A TERTIARY TEACHING HOSPITAL IN INDIA
Abhisek Pal, Shakti K Prusty, Pratap K Sahu, Truptirekha Swain

p. 96

PREPARATION AND IN VITRO CHARACTERISATION OF MUCOADHESIVE MICROSPHERES OF MIDAZOLAM: NOSE TO BRAIN ADMINISTRATION
Sapna  Desai, Gali Vidyasagar, Viral Shah, Dhruv Desai

p. 100

DETERMINATION OF LUPEOL, Β-SITOSTEROL AND QUERCETIN FROM ETHYL ACETATE EXTRACT OF RHIZOPHORA MUCRONATA BARK BY HPTLC TECHNIQUE
Rohini RM, Amit Kumar Das

p. 103

SYNTHESIS OF 2, 4-DIHYDROXY SUBSTITUTED CHALCONES USING SILICA SULPHURIC ACID REAGENT UNDER SOLVENT FREE CONDITIONS
MR Jayapal, NY Sreedhar

p. 106

ANTIDIABETIC AND WOUND HEALING ACTIVITY OF VARIOUS BARK EXTRACTS OF POLYALTHIA LONGIFOLIA
Aparna Lakshmi, Y Mastan Rao, CH Bhargavi, Uma Seelam

p. 109

EVALUATION OF ANTINOCICEPTIVE ACTIVITIES OF FRESH LEAF JUICE AND ETHANOLIC EXTRACT OF MORINGA OLEIFERA LAM
Kanchan P Upadhye, Vinod D Rangari, Vijay B Mathur

p. 114

EVALUATION OF ENHANCEMENT OF SOLUBILITY OF PARACETAMOL BY SOLID DISPERSION TECHNIQUE USING DIFFERENT POLYMERS CONCENTRATION
Anupama Singh, Pramod Kumar Sharma, Jay Gopal Meher, Rishabha Malviya

p. 117

THERAPEUTIC POTENTIAL OF BIODEGRADABLE MESELAMINE MICROSPHERES IN THE TREATMENT OF ULCERATIVE COLITIS
NM Mahajan, Dr DM Sakarkar, AS Manmode

p. 120

ANTIBIOTIC ACTIVITY OF 2, 3-DIHYDROXYBENZOIC ACID ISOLATED FROM FLACOURTIA INERMIS FRUIT AGAINST MULTIDRUG RESISTANT BACTERIA
Shibumon George, Benny PJ, Sunny Kuriakose, Cincy George

p. 126

HYPOGLYCEMIC AND ANTIDIABETIC ACTIVITY OF ALANGIUM SALVIFOLIUM WANG IN ALLOXAN INDUCED DIABETIC RATS

Hepcy Kalarani D, Dinakar A, Senthilkumar N

p. 131

EFFECT OF ACE INHIBITORS ON ANTIOXIDANT STATUS IN STREPTOZOTOCIN INDUCED DIABETIC RATS
Mastan Rao Y, Aparna Lakshmi I, Saroja M

p. 134

PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF SPRAY DRIED MICROPARTICLE AND CHILLED SPRAY DRIED PARTICLE OF KETOPROFEN BY SPRAY DRYING METHOD
Mudit Dixit, Parthasarathi K Kulkarni, Vangala Gowtham, H G Shivakumar

p. 138

OBSERVATION OF DRUG UTILIZATION PATTERN AND PREVALENCE OF DISEASES IN ELDERLY PATIENTS THROUGH HOME MEDICATION REVIEW
Jyoti Upadhyay, Yogesh Joshi

p. 143

IN VITRO CYTOTOXIC ACTIVITY OF INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS USED TRADITIONALLY TO TREAT CANCER
Shanthy Sundaram, Satish Kumar Verma, Priyanka Dwivedi

p. 146

EFFECT OF SOME MEDICINAL PLANTS ON OPPORTUNISTIC BACTERIAL AND FUNGAL PATHOGENS ASSOCIATED WITH HIV
B Bharathi, K Sundari, G Swamidoss Daniel

p. 149

ANTIAMNESIC EFFECT OF PETROLEUM ETHER EXTRACT OF MURRAYA KOENIGII (LINN) LEAVES INVOLVING POSSIBLE ANTICHOLINESTERASE AND CHOLESTEROL LOWERING MECHANISM
Sachin V Tembhurne, Dinesh M Sakarkar

p. 155