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Scientia Pharmaceutica, Volume 83, Issue 1

2015 March - 16 articles

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Articles (16)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,350 Views
18 Pages

Linking a Pharmaceutical Chemistry Workshop to Pharmacy Practice

  • Jordi MORRAL,
  • Margaret CULSHAW,
  • Kim MORRAL,
  • Barbara CONWAY,
  • Sylvia ADAMS and
  • Andrew ADAMS

15 December 2014

This paper describes the design and implementation of a workshop to enhance pharmacy students’ appreciation of the importance of chemistry for pharmacy practice. The workshop was designed to form part of the practical work of two modules taught in th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
2,951 Views
18 Pages

30 November 2014

The monitoring of the plasmatic concentrations of cardiovascular drugs is crucial for understanding their pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. A simple, sensitive, specific, and high-throughput liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry (LC–MS/...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,051 Views
14 Pages

Synthesis and Antifungal Evaluation of Novel N-Alkyl Tetra- and Perhydroquinoline Derivatives

  • Jürgen KRAUß,
  • Michal HORNACEK,
  • Christoph MÜLLER,
  • Verena STAUDACHER,
  • Martina STADLER and
  • Franz BRACHER

22 November 2014

A series of novel N-alkyl tetra- and perhydroquinoline derivatives and their hydrochlorides were prepared from tetrahydro- or trans-perhydroquinoline by direct alkylation with alkyl halides and subsequent precipitation with HCl gas. The antimicrobial...

  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
2,665 Views
17 Pages

Curcumin Attenuates Oxidative Stress and Activation of Redox-Sensitive Kinases in High Fructose- and High-Fat-Fed Male Wistar Rats

  • Nachimuthu MAITHILI KARPAGA SELVI,
  • Magadi Gopalakrishna SRIDHAR,
  • Rathinam Palamalai SWAMINATHAN and
  • Ramalingam SRIPRADHA

4 November 2014

The present study was carried out to investigate the effects of curcumin on oxidative stress and redox-sensitive kinases in high fructose- and high-fat-fed rats. Sixty rats were randomly divided into six groups with ten animals each. Rats were fed wi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,616 Views
8 Pages

Synthesis and Antioxidant Activity of 7-Thio Derivatives of 6,7-Dihydro-1H-cyclopenta[d]pyrimidine-2,4(3H,5H)-dione

  • Yuriy M. KONONEVICH,
  • Ludmila S. BOBKOVA,
  • Alexander S. SMOLSKI and
  • Anatoly M. DEMCHENKO

29 October 2014

New 7-thio derivatives of 6,7-dihydro-1H-cyclopenta[d]pyrimidine-2,4(3H,5H)-dione have been synthesized by the reaction of 3-cyclohexyl-7-thio-6,7-dihydro-1H-cyclopenta[d]pyrimidine-2,4(3H,5H)-dione with alkylhalogenides. The synthesized compounds we...

  • Article
  • Open Access
80 Citations
2,841 Views
13 Pages

24 October 2014

5-Amino-N-aryl-3-[(4-methoxyphenyl)amino]-1H-pyrazole-4-carboxamides 4a–c were synthesized by the reaction of N-(aryl)-2-cyano-3-[(4-methoxyphenyl)-amino]-3-(methylthio)acrylamides 3a–c with hydrazine hydrate in ethanol. The reaction of 5-amino-N-ary...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,949 Views
12 Pages

Identification, Isolation, and Characterization of a New Degradation Impurity in Nafcillin Sodium

  • Jagadeesh Kumar VUNDAVILLI,
  • Pavan Kumar S. R. KOTHAPALLI,
  • Badarinadh Gupta PERURI,
  • Prasada Rao V. V. KORRAPATI,
  • Hemant Kumar SHARMA and
  • Sreenivas NALLAPATI

15 October 2014

A new degradant of Nafcillin Sodium was found at a level of 1.8% w/w during the gradient reversed-phase HPLC analysis in stability storage samples. This impurity was identified by LC-MS and was characterized by 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR, LC/MS/MS, elemental an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,327 Views
14 Pages

Screening of Panamanian Plants for Cosmetic Properties, and HPLC-Based Identification of Constituents with Antioxidant and UV-B Protecting Activities

  • Niels GULDBRANDSEN,
  • Maria DE MIERI,
  • Mahabir GUPTA,
  • Eleni LIAKOU,
  • Harris PRATSINIS,
  • Dimitris KLETSAS,
  • Eliza CHAITA,
  • Nektarios ALIGIANNIS,
  • Alexios-Leandros SKALTSOUNIS and
  • Matthias HAMBURGER

15 October 2014

A library of 600 taxonomically diverse Panamanian plant extracts was screened for DPPH scavenging and UV-B protective activities, and the methanolic extracts of Mosquitoxylum jamaicense, Combretum cacoucia, and Casearia commersionia were submitted to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
2,230 Views
16 Pages

Mitigation of Methimazole-Induced Hepatic Injury by Taurine in Mice

  • Reza HEIDARI,
  • Akram JAMSHIDZADEH,
  • Nahid KESHAVARZ and
  • Negar AZARPIRA

30 September 2014

Methimazole is the most widely prescribed antithyroid medication in humans. However, hepatotoxicity is a deleterious adverse effect associated with methimazole administration. No specific protective agent has been developed against this complication...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,703 Views
15 Pages

26 September 2014

In the present study, a series of organic and alkali metal salts of biphenylacetic acid (BPA) have been prepared and evaluated in vitro for percutaneous drug delivery. The physicochemical properties of BPA salts were determined using solubility measu...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
1,197 Views
12 Pages

26 September 2014

Die Zeitschrift Scientia Pharmaceutica (www.scipharm.at) erscheint vierteljährlich jeweils am Quartalsende und ist ein Medium zur Publikation von Originalarbeiten, Kurzmit-teilungen und ausgewählten Übersichtsarbeiten aus allen wissenschaftlichen Dis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,829 Views
9 Pages

A Stability-Indicating HPLC Method for the Determination of Fingolimod in Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms

  • Effat SOURI,
  • Mohammad ZARGARPOOR,
  • Siavash MOTTAGHI,
  • Reza AHMADKHANIHA and
  • Abbas KEBRIAEEZADEH

23 September 2014

Fingolimod is an immunosuppressive agent which is used for the prophylaxis of organ transplantation rejection or multiple sclerosis treatment. In this study, systematic forced degradation studies on fingolimod bulk powder were performed to develop a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,214 Views
15 Pages

Synthesis and Characterization of Impurities in the Production Process of Lopinavir

  • Ambati V. RAGHAVA REDDY,
  • Srinivas GARAGA,
  • Chandiran TAKSHINAMOORTHY and
  • Andra NAIDU

22 September 2014

Lopinavir is an antiretroviral drug used for the inhibition of HIV protease. Four related substances of lopinavir were observed during the manufacturing process of lopinavir in the laboratory and they were identified. The present work describes the o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
1,996 Views
12 Pages

15 September 2014

In order to develop new selective COX-2 inhibitors, a new series of 2-phenyl-4H-chromen-4-one derivatives possessing a methylsulfonyl pharmacophore group at the para position of the C-4 phenyl ring were designed, synthesized, and evaluated for cycloo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,966 Views
19 Pages

8 September 2014

A short and sensitive stability-indicating gradient RP-UPLC method was developed for the quantitative determination of process-related impurities and degradation products of tolterodine tartrate in pharmaceutical formulations. The method was develope...

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