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As I write this editorial, some of the current events that we are faced with in the pharmaceutical industry in INDIA, bears greatly on my mind. The exponential rise in the cost of a large number of APIs is causing great anguish and stress for formulation manufacturers. The ri...

Flavones, flavonols, flavanones and isoflavones constitute four important categories of naturally occurring flavonoids. These compounds possess good antiproliferative activity and can act as adjuvants to existing anticancer therapy. We have synthesized twenty synthetic flavonoids including flavon...

The present work describes the synthesis of a series of quinoline based 4-thiazolidinone and 2-azetidinone derivatives from Schiff bases obtained from the condensation of 2-chloro-3-formylquinoline and 3-4-aminoacetophenones. Quinoline based 4-thiazolidinone and 2-azetidinone derivatives have bee...

Drugs having poor oral bioavailability, fail to reach the minimum effective concentration required to achieve pharmacological action. Improvement of the oral bioavailability of the drug is the most realistic approach, as it is the most preferred and convenient route of administration. Besides num...

A planar chromatography (HPTLC) method has been developed and validated for quantitative estimation of the atypical antipsychotic drug paliperidone, which is weakly basic and poorly water soluble. The Camag HPTLC system, operated by software winCATS (ver.1.4.1.8), was used. Sample application was...

An RP-HPLC method was developed for the quantification of related impurities of lurasidone and its formulation. The chromatographic separation employs gradient elution using an Inertsil ODS C18 (150x4.6) mm, 5μm columns. Mobile phase consisting of solvent A-buffer (pH 3.0): methanol (90:10 %v/v)...

Bioactive principles from the hyroalcoholic (50%) extract of Musa paradisiaca L. stem were isolated and characterized to evaluate antifertility activity in female albino rats. Oral acute toxicity study was done with crude extract for 24h. The hydro alcoholic extract of M. paradisiaca stem was sub...

The objective of this study was to design and investigate the antifungal activity of proniosomal gel of eugenol for the treatment of oral candidiasis. The proniosomal gel was prepared by coacervation phase separation method using different surfactants like spans 20, 60, 80, soya lecithin and chol...

In a pilot scale study, silver and copper nanoparticles were synthesized from two different plant sources viz Flacourtia indica and Prosopsis juliflora. The in vivo toxicity of silver and copper nanoparticles was tested on Danio rerio (Zebra fish) under differe...