Pomegranate, Punica granatum L. (Punicacece), is designated as a plant used in folklore and in several systems of medicine like ayurvedic, unani and siddha for treatment of variety of ailments, as it is believed to possess the powers of fertility, abundance and good luck. The last decade had seen...

A simple and rapid HPTLC has been developed for the quantitative analysis of marketed formulations of Shankhapushpi using scopoletin as a marker. HPTLC method was validated as per the ICH guidelines in terms of linearity, accuracy, precision and specificity. The developed and validated method was...

The present investigation was focused on the development and evaluation of controlled release pellets of losartan potassium with Eudragit S 100 and hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose phthalate (HPMCP) by employing pan coating technique. Eudragit S 100, a high viscosity grade controlled release polyme...

The aim of the present study was to mask the bitter taste of oxybutynin chloride by lipid excipients and to develop its fast disintegrating tablet. For this purpose, a blend of two lipids, glyceryl behenate and glyceryl palmitostearate was utilized for taste masking by solvent evaporation method....

A simple, precise, accurate and reproducible spectrophotometric method has been developed for simultaneous estimation of ebastine and montelukast sodium by employing first order derivative zero crossing method in methanol and water. The first order derivative absorption at 234 nm (zero cross poin...

In the present study, amorphous form of cefuroxime axetil was prepared and characterized by various methods. The result showed that the amorphous form of cefuroxime axetil with hydrophilic carriers was successfully obtained by freeze drying. The amorphous form showed a substantially higher dissol...

A series of alkyl derivatives of plumbagin (2-methyl-5-hydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone), analogous to Vitamin K, have been synthesized. Plumbagin reacts with carboxylic acid in presence of silver nitrate and ammonium peroxydisulphate to form its alkyl derivatives. The compounds synthesized were charac...