ACTA   PHARMACEUTICA  


Acta Pharm.                 Vol. 47                 No. 1                 pp. 1-68                 Zagreb 1997


CONTENTS

REVIEW ARTICLE 

 A. Simonic and G. Zupan
 Potential therapeutic targets in Alzheimer's disease ............1 

ORIGINAL SCIENTIFIC PAPERS

 I. Martin-Kleiner and J. Gabrilovac
 Increase of intracellular cAMP level in human peripheral blood 
 mononuclear cells by Met-enkephalin 9 ...........................9

 W. Piekoszewski and A. Rutkowska
 Influence of tacrolimus (FK 506) on methylprednisolone 
 elimination in rats 15 .........................................15

 A. Bozkir and A. Aydinli
 In vitro release study of lidocaine hydrochloride from 
 ophthalmic gels containing polyacrylic acid polymers ...........21

 M. U. Adikwu
 Drug release from latex-treated, matrix tablet formulations ....31

 M. Kujundzic, I. Basic, and N. Kujundzic
 Therapy of liver methastases of colorectal cancer by plant 
 extract from Caucalis platycarpos L. ...........................39

 V. K. Sasidharan
 Search for antibacterial and antifungal activity of some 
 plants of Kerala - India .......................................47

 M. Kidwai, N. Negi, and S. Kohli
 New indolyl phthalazinones and phthalazine derivatives as 
 spermicidal agents .............................................53

 I. Vedrina-Dragojevic, B. Sebecic, and L. Balint
 Determination of thiamine hydrochloride in vitamin 
 preparations by modified spectrofluorometric thiochrome
 method .........................................................59

BOOK REVIEWS 

 MARTINDALE - THE EXTRA PHARMACOPOEIA     
 Thirty-first Edition, edited by E. F. Reynolds,
 Royal Pharmaceutical Society, London, 1996;
 28 cm x 21.4 cm; pages xxi + 2739.
 ISBN 0-85369-3422-0. ...........................................67

 CLIFFORD L. NILSEN
 MANAGING THE ANALYTICAL LABORATORY
 Plain and Simple, Interpharm Press Inc,
 Buffalo Grove, IL, USA, 1996;
 28 cm x 21.4 cm; pages ix + 337.
 ISBN 1-57491-01509. ............................................68