Current Issues of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences

Contents

1. Medicinal plants: A promising source of anti-diabetic agents in sub-Sahara Africa - 65
Chinyere Aloke, Chinedu Ogbonnia Egwu, Oluwasola Abayomi Adelusi, Nnamdi Chinaka, Shedrach Kalu, Peace Nzubuchukwu Ogbodo, Blessing Oluebube Akumadu, Ikechukwu Achilonu

2. Combinations of Fe tablets and dragon fruit and combinations of Fe tablets and date straw on increasing hemoglobin levels in adolescent women with anemia - 77
Dini Fitri Damayanti, Zuriyati Bawirza, Taufik Hidayat, Slamet Wardoyo

3. Development and validation of a new bioanalytical method for quantification of CDK4/6 inhibitor in Spiked Human Plasma by HPLC-UV - 81
Rakesh U. Shelke, Dinesh D. Rishipathak

4. Healthcare professional’s knowledge and awareness of the medication error reporting systems in the Kuwaiti hospitals - 87
Mohammad Saada

5. Penicillin-binding protein genotyping of penicillin-nonsusceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates from the nasopharynx of healthy preschool children - 94
Karolina Kielbik, Adrian Bakiera, Izabela Korona-Glowniak

6. Adiponectin as a novel predictive biomarker of multiple sclerosis course - 99
Jakub Krzysztof Gałązka, Agnieszka Polak, Beata Matyjaszek-Matuszek

7. Assessment of risk perception of patients concerning adverse drug reactions - 103
João José Joaquim, Cristiano Matos, Ramona Mateos-Campos

8. The monoamine theory of depression  as a target to effective pharmacotherapy - 108
Marta Kruk-Slomka, Tomasz Karabin, Grazyna Biala

9. The role of the L-arginine-NO-cGMP pathway in the development of tolerance to mephedrone-induced hyperlocomotion in mice - 114
Gabriela Bielecka-Papierz, Ewa Poleszak, Aleksandra Szopa, Joanna Listos, Jolanta Orzelska-Gorka, Małgorzata Jakobczuk, Kamila Baluk, Sylwia Talarek, Anna Serefko

10. Determination of some drugs used against neurodegenerative disorders by micellar electrokinetic chromatography with running buffer containing SDS - 121
Adam Traczuk, Kamila Jaglińska, Beata Polak