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  • TASTE MASKING TECHNOLOGIES: A NOVEL APPROACH FOR THE BETTER PATIENT COMPLIANCE

    About Authors:
    Dhananjay S. Jadhav
    M. Tech (Pharmaceutical Technology) Division of Pharmaceutical Technology,
    School of Chemical Technology, North Maharashtra University,
    Jalgaon- 425001, India
    dhananjaysjadhav@hotmail.com

    ABSTRACT
    Oral administration of pharmaceuticals is one of the most popular method of drug dilevery.Taste is an important factor in the development of dosage form. “The worse the taste of the medication, the better the cure” was once the prevailing attitude. Many orally administered drugs elicite bitter taste. Undesirable and particularly bitter taste is one of the important formulation problems that are encountered with many drugs. Administration of bitter drugs orally with acceptable level of palatability is a key issue for health care providers. Proven methods for bitterness reduction and inhibition have resulted in improved palatability of oral pharmaceuticals. Several approaches like adding flavors and sweeteners, use of lipoproteins for inhibiting bitterness, coating of drug with inert agents, microencapsulation, multiple emulsion, viscosity modifiers, vesicles and liposomes, prodrug formation, salt formation, formation of inclusion and molecular complexes, solid dispersion system and application of ion exchange resins have been tried by the formulators to mask the unpleasant taste of the bitter drugs. The present review attempts to give a brief account of different technologies of taste masking with respect to dosage form and novel methods of evaluation of taste masking effect.

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  • A REVIEW ON APPLICATION OF PHARMACOKINETICS TO CLINICAL SITUATIONS
    A REVIEW ON APPLICATION OF PHARMACOKINETICS TO CLINICAL SITUATIONS

    About Authors:
    V. KRISHNA KISHORE
    M.Pharm, 2nd Sem (Pharmaceutics)
    Roland Institute of  Pharmaceutical Sciences , Berhampur, Odisha.
    Krishnakishorev58@gmail.com

    1. Abstract:
    Pharmacokinetics is currently defined as the study of the time course of drug absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion. Clinical pharmacokinetics is the application of pharmacokinetic principles to the safe and effective therapeutic management of drugs in an individual patient.
    Primary goals of clinical pharmacokinetics include enhancing efficacy and decreasing toxicity of a patient's drug therapy. The development of strong correlations between drug concentrations and their pharmacologic responses has enabled clinicians to apply pharmacokinetic principles to actual patient situations.
    A drug's effect is often related to its concentration at the site of action, so it would be useful to monitor this concentration. Receptor sites of drugs are generally inaccessible to our observations or are widely distributed in the body, and therefore direct measurement of drug concentrations at these sites is not practical. For example, the receptor sites for digoxin are believed to be within the myocardium, and we cannot directly sample drug concentration in this tissue. However, we can measure drug concentration in the blood or plasma, urine, saliva, and other easily sampled fluids.

  • IMPURITIES AN OVERVIEW
    IMPURITIES AN OVERVIEW

    About Authors:
    Lila dhar*, Prof. Sanjeev Thacker, Jatin Patel
    Seth G. L. Bihani S.D. College Of Technical Education, Institute Of Pharmaceutical Sciences & Drug Research,
    Gaganpath, Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan 335001
    *ldbudania@gmail.com

    ABSTRACT
    Impurities is defined as an entity of drug substances or drug product that is not chemical entity defined as drug substances an excipients or other additives to drug product. In pharmaceutical world, an impurity is generally considered as an other organic material beside the other drug substances that is arises out of the synthesis most of the time, inorganic contaminants are not considered as an impurity unless they are toxic, such as heavy metal or arsenic. There are numerios source of impurities and many different common terms are use for impurities such as by product, intermediate, transformation on product, related product, interaction product and degradation products.

  • Thermogravimetry
    Thermogravimetry

    About Authors:
    Jatin  Patel*
    Seth G.L. Bihani S.D. College of Technical Education,
    Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Drug Research,
    Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan, INDIA
    *Patelj313@yahoo.com

    ABSTRACT:
    Thermogravimetry
    is a branch of physical chemistry, materials research, and thermal analysis. It is based on continuous recording of mass changes of a sample of material, as a function of a combination of temperature with time, and additionally of pressure and gas composition.

    It includes different types of Thermogravimetric analysis. In this article types, Instrumentation, Procedure, Application are priscribed.

  • NEW DRUG APPROVAL PROCEDURE IN INDIA
    NEW DRUG APPROVAL PROCEDURE IN INDIA

    About Authors:
    Jatin  Patel*, Krunal Parikh, Dhiren Shah
    Seth G.L. Bihani S.D. College of Technical Education,
    Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Drug Research,
    Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan, INDIA
    *Patelj313@yahoo.com

    ABSTRACT:
    A regulatory process, by which a person/organization/sponsor/innovator gets authorization to launch a drug in the market, is known as drug approval process. In general, a drug approval process comprises of various stages: application to conduct clinical trials, conducting clinical trials, application to marketing authorization of drug and post-marketing studies. Every country has its own regulatory authority, which is responsible to enforce the rules and regulations and issue the guidelines to regulate the marketing of the drugs.
    This article includes new drug approval process in different countries include India, Australia, European union, China etc.
    New drug approval process in different countries are described in logarithmic representation.

  • REVIEW ON THE LEAD OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES (PHASE-I)
    REVIEW ON THE LEAD OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES (PHASE-I)

    About Authors:
    Kambham Venkateswarlu*, D.Z.Suhasini
    Department of Pharmacology,
    Sri Lakshmi Narasimha College of Pharmacy (JNTUA), Pallur,
    Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, India.
    *k.v.reddy9441701016@gmail.com

    ABSTRACT:
    Lead optimization techniques are deals that new discovery is to choose the compounds with a known pharmacological action and proceed to modify the molecular structure of the compound systemically to get a drug with desired properties pharmacological action and pharmacokinetics. The compounds of the drugs are choosing for the study is called as lead.

    Generally the identification and synthesis of compounds which are structurally related to the lead compound and testing their pharmacological activity. In the process it is possible to find a better drug than the lead compound.

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  • STABILITY-INDICATING RP- HPLC METHOD FOR ANALYSIS OF SITAGLIPTIN IN THE BULK DRUG AND IT’S PHARMACEUTICAL DOSAGE FORM
    STABILITY-INDICATING RP- HPLC METHOD FOR ANALYSIS OF SITAGLIPTIN IN THE BULK DRUG AND IT’S PHARMACEUTICAL DOSAGE FORM

    About Authors:
    V.DEEPTHI *, POORNIMA.Y, DR.G.DEVALA RAO, T.SANDEEP REDDY
    Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis,
    K.V.S.R.Siddharthacollege of pharmaceutical sciences,
    Vijayawada-520010, India.
    *deepthi759@gmail.com

    ABSTRACT
    A novel stability-indicating RP-HPLC method has been develop and validated for quantitative analysis of Sitagliptin in the bulk drug and in its pharmaceutical dosage forms using Hypersil–BDS- C18 column (250x4.6mmi.d, 5µ particle size) with 10mM Phosphate buffer (PH-3.5): ACN 60:40%v/v as isocratic mobile phase enabled separation of the drug from its degradation products. UV detection was performed at 260 nm. The method was validated for linearity, accuracy (recovery), precision, sensitivity, ruggedness and robustness. The linearity of the method was excellent over the range 10–60μg/ml (correlation coefficient 0.999). The limits of detection and quantification were 0.21 and 0.640μg/ml, respectively. Recovery of Sitagliptinfrom the pharmaceutical dosage form ranged from 99.99 to 100.05%.

    Sitagliptin was subjected to stress conditions (Hydrolysis (acid, base), oxidation,thermal and photo degradation) and the stressed samples were analysed by use of the method. Degradation was observed in acid, base, and 30% H2O2. The drug was stable under the other stress conditions investigated. The degradation products were well resolved from main peak. The forced degradation studies prove the stability indicating power of the method.

  • PYRROLE, FURAN, THIOPHENE  DERIVATIVES  &  PHARMACOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES: A REVIEW
    PYRROLE, FURAN, THIOPHENE DERIVATIVES & PHARMACOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES: A REVIEW

    About Authors:
    C.P.Meher*, S.P.Sethy, M.Madhavi
    *Asst. Professor
    Maheshwara Institute of  Pharmacy,
    Chitkul, Patancheru, Medak, A.P
    *chaitanyameher84@gmail.com

    ABSTRACT:
    Medicinal chemistry and pharmaceutical chemistry are disciplines at the intersection of chemistry, especially synthetic organic chemistry, and pharmacology and various other biological specialties, where they are involved with design, chemical synthesis and development for market of pharmaceutical agents, or bio-active molecules (drugs).Very important part of above is the heterocyclic-chemistry. Now a days so many investigation are carried out for developing new chemical entities having suitability for human life. A lot of research work is going on presently for development of new heterocyclic derivatives.The present review article is concern with the three, five-membered heterocyclic compound pyrrole, furan & thiophene  derivatives that show diverse pharmacological activities.

  • PHYSICAL STABILITY TESTING OF DRUGS AND DRUG PRODUCTS
    PHYSICAL STABILITY TESTING OF DRUGS AND DRUG PRODUCTS

    About Authors:
    L.D.Budania
    Seth G. L. Bihani S. D. College Of Technical Education,
    Institute Of Pharmaceutical Sciences & Drug Research, Gaganpath,
    Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan 335001
    *ldbudania@gmail.com

    ABSTRACT:
    Stability is an essential quality attribute for drug products. If there is any functionally relevant quality attribute of a drug product that changes with time, this evaluation checked by pharmaceutical scientist and regulators who quantify drug product stability and shelf life. The rate at which drug products degrade varies dramatically. E.g. radiopharmaceutical products. Since the evaluation of the stability of drug is highly specialized and esoteric nature. Drug stability concerns about drug product safety, efficacy, and quality, found it to appropriate. Stability studies are done through the regulatory agencies such as FDA and HPB (health protection branch).

  • EFFECT OF PRUNUS AMYGDALUS (BATSCH) IN DIFFERENT MODELS OF ULCER
    EFFECT OF PRUNUS AMYGDALUS (BATSCH) IN DIFFERENT MODELS OF ULCER

    About Authors:
    Devendra Kumar1,Pragya Seth2
    Department of Pharmaceutical technology,
    1Sri Satya Sai collage of Pharmacy Bhopal,
    2Lakshmi Narain College of Pharmacy, Bhopal
    *guptadevendra15@gmail.com

    Abstract
    The present work describes the effect of methanolic extract of Prunus amygdalus (batsch.) on pylorus ligation and Ethanol-induced gastric ulcer models in Wistar rats. The present study provides a strong evidence of antiulcer activity of Prunus amygdalus extract against gastric lesions. The antiulcer activity is recognized by a reduction in acid-secretary parameters like total and free acidity, gastric volume and ulcer score suggesting that acid inhibition accelerates ulcer healing, thereby strengthening of mucosal barrier. In this present study it shows significant protection for Hexosamine in all treated groups in comparison to negative control group. Inthe LPO results it was observed that there was significance level difference in negative control group and all other group that indicates that lipid peroxides enzyme was higher in vehicle treated group. Ulcer score was determined by the counting of spots and severity of damage in stomach part by any moiety such as ethanol. Single drug treatment (200 mg/kg and 400mg/kg of P.A.E.) was effective up to a significant level (P<0.05) in compare to negative control group.Volume of gastric juice indicate the secretions of gastric fluid and it is higher in negative control group and all drug treated group was effective in relation to negative control group in significance level (P <0.05).

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