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PHARMACY REFERENCE BOOK LIST

Anatomy and Physiology

  • Ross and Wilson  Anatomy and Physiology in Health and illness

  • Human Anatomy and Physiology by Tortora Gerard J

  • Best and Taylor's Physiological Basis of Medical Practice, Willium & Wilkins, Baltimore.

  • Guyton A C, Hall JE., Textbook of Medical Physiology,WB Sannders Company.

  • Robbins S L and Kumar V, Basic Pathology, W B Saunders Company.

  • Gray’s Anatomy. Publisher:Churchill Livingstone, London.

Biochemistry & Clinical Pathology

  • Essentials of Biochemistry by U. Satyanarayan, Books and Allied (P) Ltd

  • Laboratory manual of Biochemistry by Pattabiraman and Sitaram Acharya

  • Lehninger A L, Biochemistry, Worth Publisher, Inc., Lehninger A L, Principles of Biochemistry, CBS Publishers and Distributors.

  • Harpers Biochemistry

  • Stryer L, Biochemistry, W H Freeman and Company; San Fransisco

Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics

  • Biopharmaceutics and Clinical Pharmacokinetics by Milo Gibaldi, 4th edition,Philadelphia, Lea and Febiger, 1991

  • Pharmacokinetics by Milo Gibaldi and D. Perrier, 2nd edition, Marcel Dekker Inc.,New York, 1982

  • Shargel and Yu: Applied Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics, Prentice Hall.

  • Javed Ali, Roop K. Khar and Alka Ahuja, Textbook of Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics.

  • Brahmankar and Bhandarkar: Textbook of  Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics

Biotechnology

  • Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, K. Sambhamurthy and Ashutosh Kar

  • Biotechnology of Industrial Antibiotics,  E.J.  Vandamme, Marcel  Dekker, NY.

  • Cori and Cori: Biotechnology.

  • Gary Walsh, Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Concepts and Applications

Clinical Pharmacology

Social & Community Pharmacy

Drug Regulatory Affairs

Intellectual Property Rights

Immunology

  • Benjamini E., Immunology a short course

  • Smith J., Immunology Clinical Laboratory 

  • Nairn R., Immunology for Medical Student 

  • Rosenthal KS., Microbiology and Immunology

  • Mary Dawson, G.R. Milne and J.B. Stenlake, Immunological and Blood Products, Elsevier

  • Handbook of Prebiotics

Pharmacopoeias, Codex, Formularies & Encyclopedia

  • India Pharmacopoeia, published by the Controller of Publications, Delhi, 2007, Vol.1, Vol.2, Vol.3.

  • British Pharmacopoiea, Her Majesty's Stationery office, University Press, Cambridge

  • United States Pharmacopoeia. United States Pharmacopeial Convention, Inc, USA, 2003.

  • British National Formulary, No. 25 Pub jointly by British Medical Association and Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.

  • The British Pharmaceutical Codex, The Pharmaceutical Press, London. Convention.

  • The Extra Pharmacopoeia – The Pharm. Press, London.

Informatics

  • Bourne P.E, Structural Bioinformatics 

  • Bunin B.A, Chemoinformatics- Theory Practice and Products 

Microbiology

  • Hugo W.B. and Russel A.D., Pharmaceutical Microbiology; Blackwell Scientific Publication, Oxford

  • Prescott L M, Harely G P, Klein D A, Microbiology, Wm C Brown Publishers, Oxford.

  • Prescott and Dunn, Industrial Microbiology, McGraw Hill Book Company Inc.

  • Pelczar and Reid: Microbiology

  • Pharmaceutical Microbiology by Asutoshkar

  • Cooper and Gunn’s, Tutorial Pharmacy

  • N.K . Jain: Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Vallabh Prakashan, Delhi

  • Ananthnarayan: Textbook of Microbiology

Pharmaceutical Analysis

  • Spectrometric Identification of Organic compounds - Robert M Silverstein, Sixth edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2004

  • Principles  of Instrumental  Analysis  -  Douglas  A Skoog, F. James  Holler, Timothy A. Nieman, 6th edition, Eastern press, Bangalore, 1998

  • Chatwal Anand: Instrumental Method of Chemical Analysis

  • Ravi Shankar, Instrumental Analysis

  • Pavia: Introduction to Spectroscopy.

  • Organic Spectroscopy - William Kemp, 3rd edition, ELBS, 1991.

  • Quantitative Analysis of Drugs in Pharmaceutical Formulation -  P D Sethi, 3rd Edition, CBS Publishers, New Delhi, 1997.

  • Pharmaceutical Analysis - Modern Methods – Part B - J W Munson, Vol- 11, Marcel. Dekker Series

  • Spectroscopy of Organic Compounds,  2nd edn., P.S Kalsi,  Wiley  Eastern Ltd., Delhi.

  • Textbook of Pharmaceutical Analysis, KA.Connors, 3rd Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 1982.

Pharmaceueutical Chemistry

  • Beckett A H and Stenlake J B, Practical Pharmaceutical Chemistry Vol. I and II., The Athlone Press of the University of London.

  • L.M. Atherdon, Bentley and Driver’s, Textbook of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Oxford University Press, Delhi.

  • Finar I L" Organic Chemistry, Vol. I., The Fundamentals and Principles, ELBS/Longman.

  • Finar I L, Organic Chemistry, Vol. II ELBS/Longman, London.

  • Morison R.T and Boyd R.N., Organic Chemistry, Allyn and Bacon Inc., Boston, USA

  • NY Qadry JS and Qadry S Z., Text book of Inorganic Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, B. S. Shah Prakashan, Ahmedabad.

  • Practical Organic Chemistry by Mann and Saunders

  • Vogel’s text book of Practical Organic Chemistry, ELBS & Longman, London and NY

  • Williams V R and Williams H S, Basic Physical Chemistry for the Life Sciences, W H Freeman.

  • Sanyal S.N., Reaction Mechanisms.

Medicinal Chemistry

  • Medicinal & Pharmaceutical Chemistry by Harikishan Singh and VK Kapoor.

  • R.F Doerge, Wilson and Giswold's Text book of Organic Medicinal and Phamaceutical Chemistry, J. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia.

  • Wolff M E, Ed. Burger's Medicinal Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, New York.

  • W.O Foye, Principles of Medicinal Chemistry, Lea & Febiger, Philadelphia.

  • S.N. Pandeya, A Textbook of Medicinal Chemistry, Vol.- I and II, S.G. Publishers, Varanasi.

  • Asutoshkar, Medicinal Chemistry, Wiley Eastern, Limited Publishers, New Delhi.

Computer Aided Drug Development

  • Computer Applications in Pharmaceutical  Research and Development, Sean Ekins, 2006, John Wiley & Sons.

  • Computer- Aided Applications in Pharmaceutical Technology, 1st Edition, Jelena Djuris, Woodhead  Publishing

Pharmaceutics

  • A Text book of Pharmaceuticals Formulation by B.M. Mithal, Vallabh Prakashan, Delhi

  • S.P Agarwal, Rajesh Khanna: Physical Pharmacy, CBS Publishers, New Delhi.

  • Bentleys’ Text book of Pharmaceutics, 8th Edition, editor E.A. Rawlins, published by Elsevier Int.

  • The Theory and Practice of Industrial Pharmacy. Leon Lachman, Herbert Lieberman and Joseph Kanig, Editors, Lea and Febiger, Philadelphia, Verghese Publishing House.

  • N.K Jain and S.N Sharma: The Theory and Practice of Professional Pharmacy

  • Ansel H C, Introduction to Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms, K M Varghese & Co., Bombay.

  • Aulton M E Pharmaceutics - The Science of Dosage Form Design.

  • Avis K E, Lachman L and Lieberman H A, Marcel Dekker Inc. Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms; Parenteral Medications, Vols. 1& 2, NY.

  • Badger W L and Banchero J T, Introduction to Chemical Engineering McGraw Hill Intematonal Book Co.,London.

  • Banker G S and Rhode C T Modem, Pharmaceutics, Marcel Dekker Inc., NY.

  • Bean H S, Beckett A H, and Carless A H, Advances in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Vol 1-4 Academic Press, London.

  • Cooper and Gunn's, Dispensing for Pharmaceutical Students, CBS Publishers, Delhi.

  • Carter S J, Cooper and Gunn's Tutorial Pharmacy CBS Publishers, Delhi.

  • Cartstensen J T, Drug Stability, Marcel Dekker Inc NY.

  • Connores KA, Amiden Gland Stella V J, Chemical Stability of Pharmaceuticals, John Wiley & Sons NY.

  • C G Brown, Unit Operations (Indian ed) Asia Publishing House, Bombay.

  • Lieberman H A, Lachman L & Schwartz J B, Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms: Tablets, 'Vols. 1-3, Marcel Dekker Inc., NY.

  • Pharmaceutical Dosage forms: Disperse systems, Vol, 1-2;  By  Leon Lachmann.

  • Pharmaceutical Dosage forms: Parenteral medications Vol. 1-2; By Leon Lachmann.

  • Martin A N, Arthur Cammarata, James Swarbrick, Physical Pharmacy, K M Varghese & Co., Bombay.

  • Parry R H & Chilton C H Chemical Engineers Handbook, McGraw Kogakusha Ltd.Peppier, Microbial Technology, vol l & II.

  • Rawlins EA, Bentley's Textbook of Pharmaceutics ELBS Bacilliere Tindall. Ridgway K Hard Capsules, The Pharmaceutical Press, London.

  • Modern Pharmaceutics; By Gillbert and S. Banker.

  • Wells JI. Pharmaceutical Preformulation: The physicochemical properties of drug substances. Ellis Horwood Ltd., England, 1998.

  • Carstensen JT, Rhodes CT. Drug stability principles and practices, 3 CBS Publishers & distributors, New Delhi, 2005. ed.,

  • Yoshioka S, Stella VJ. Stability of drugs and dosage forms, Springer (India) Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2006.

  • W. Grimm - Stability testing of drug products. ed., Marcel Dekker

  • Mazzo DJ. International stability testing. Eastern Press Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, 1999. 13. Beckett AH, Stenlake JB. Practical pharmaceutical th chemistry, Part I & II., 4 2004. ed., CBS Publishers & distributors, New Delhi,

  • Encyclopaedia of Pharmaceutical Technology, Vol I – III.

  • ICH Guidelines for impurity profiles and stability studies.

  • United States Food and Drug Administration (USDFA) official website- www.fda.gov

  • CDSCO website- http://www.cdsco.nic.in/forms/Default.aspx

  • Schedule M and Schedule N, Drug and Cosmetics Act, Govt. of India

Drug Delivery Systems

  • N.K. Jain, Controlled and Novel Drug Delivery, CBS Publishers & Distributors, New Delhi, First edition 1997 (reprint in 2001).

  • S.P.Vyas and R.K.Khar, Controlled Drug Delivery - Concepts and advances, Vallabh Prakashan, New Delhi, First edition 2002

  • Indian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences (by IPA)

  • Indian drugs (by IDMA)

  • Journal of Controlled Release (Elsevier Sciences)

  • Drug Development and Industrial Pharmacy (Marcel & Decker)

  • Y  W.  Chien, Novel  Drug Delivery  Systems,  2nd edition,  revised  and expanded, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, 1992.

  • Controlled Drug Delivery Systems, Robinson, Vol 29, Marcel Dekker, NY.

  • Transdermal Controlled Systemic Medications, YW Chein, Vol 31, Marcel Dekker, NY.

  • Nasal System Drug Delivery, K.S.E. Su, Vol.- 39, Marcel Dekker, NY.

  • Drug Delivery Devices, Vol.- 32, P. Tyle Marcel Dekker, NY.

  • Polymers for Controlled Drug Delivery, P.J. Tarcha, CRC Press.

  • Protein Formulation & Delivery, E.J. McNally, Vol 99, Marcel Dekker, NY.

  • Drug Targeting, M.H. Rubinstein, John Wiley, NY.

Cosmetics and Cosmeceuticals

  • Handbook of Cosmetics by B.M Mithal

  • Harry’s Cosmeticology. 8th edition.

  • Poucher’s Perfume Cosmetics and Soaps,10th edition.

  • Cosmetics - Formulation, Manufacture and Quality Control, PP.Sharma,4th edition

  • Handbook of Cosmetic  Science  and Technology A.O.Barel,  M.Paye and H.I. Maibach. 3 rd edition

  • CTFA directory.

Pharmacognosy

  • Text book of Pharmacognosy by C. K. Kokate, S. B. Gokhale, A.P. Purohith, Nirali Prakashan.

  • Atal  C  K  and  Kapur  B  M,  Cultivation  and  Utilization  of  Medicinal  plants, RRL, Jammu.

  • Brain K R and Turner T D, The Practical Evaluation of Phyto-pharmaceuticals, Wright - Scientechnica, Bristol.

  • Chopra R N, Nayar S L and Chopra, I C, Glossary of Indian Medicinal Plants, C SIR, New Delhi.

  • Clarke ECG, Isolation and Identification of Drugs, The Pharmaceutical Press, London

  • Guenther, E,'Me Essential Oils - 4 D Van Nostrand Co Inc., New York.

  • Harborne J B, Biochemistry of Phenolic Compounds, Academic Press, New York. Harborne JB, Phytochemical Methods, Chapman, and Hall, International Edition, London.

  • Henry T A, The Plant Alkaloids, McGraw Hill, New York.

  • Medicinal Plants of India, 1. Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi.

  • Miller L P, Phytochemistry, 1-3 Van Nostrand Reinhold Co.,

  • Mohd. Ali, Textbook of Pharmacognosy, CBS, New Delhi.

  • Nadkarni  A  K,  Indian  Materia  Medical,  1-2,  Popular  Prakashan  Pvt.  Ltd., Bombay.

  • O.P Agarwal Vol.- I and II, Natural Products.

  • Pridham J B, and Swain T., Biosynthetic Pathways in Higher Plants, Academic Press, New York.

  • Pridham J B., Terpenoids in Plants, Academic Press, New York.

  • Reinetrt   J and Bajaj Y P S, Applied and Fundamental Aspects of Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture, Berlin.

  • Scheuer P., Marine Natural Products, Academic press, London.

  • Sinnott  E  W.,  Dunn  L  c.,  and  Dobzhansky  T.,  Principles  of  Genetics,  Tata Mcgraw Hill Publishing Co., Limited, New Delhi.

  • Stahl E., Thin Layer Chromatography - A Laboratory Handbook, Springer Verlag, Berlin.

  • Swain T, Chemical Plant Taxonomy, Academic Press, London. Swain T, Comparative Phytochemistry, Academic Press, London.

  • The Wealth of India,  Raw  Materials  (all  volumes) Council  of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi.

  • Tyler VE Jr and Schwarting AE., Experimental Pharmacognosy, Burgess Pub. Co, Minneaplis, Minnesota.

  • Tyler, L.R Brady and RS.B. Robbers: Pharmacognosy, K.M. Verghese Co. Bombay.

  • Wallis T E, Analytical Microscopy, J & A Churchill limited, London.

  • Wallis T E., Text Book of Pharmacognosy , J & A Churchill Limited, London. Welsch J R, Fundamentals of Plant Genetics and Breeding, Wiley, New Yak. Whistler R L., Industrial. Gums, Polysaccharides and their Derivatives, Academic Press, New York.

  • WHO guidelines for quality standards of medicinal plants

  • Zafar R, Medicinal Plants of India, c. B.S. Publisher, New Delhi.

  • Ayurvedic  Pharmacopoeia,  The Controller  of  Publications,  Civil Lines, Govt. of India, New Delhi.

  • Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia.  Formulary of Ayurvedic  Medicines,  IMCOPS, Chennai.

  • Homeopathic  Pharmacopoeia.   Formulary of   Homeopathic   Medicines, IMCOPS, Chennai.

  • Indian Herbal Pharmacopoeia, IDMA, Mumbai.

  • British Herbal Pharmacopoeia, bRITISH Herbal Medicine Association, UK.

  • GMP for  Botanicals  -  Regulatory  and Quality  issues  on Phytomedicine, Pulok K Mukharjee, Business Horizons, New Delhi.

  • Indian System of Medicine   and Homeopathy in India, Planning  and Evaluation Cell, Govt. of India, New Delhi.

Pharmacology

  • Satoskar, R.S. and Bhandarkar, S.D. Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics

  • Ex- pharm 1.00 soft ware

  • Tripathi, K.D. Essentials of Medical Pharmacology.

  • Introduction to Pharmacology by N. Murgesh

  • Applied Therapeutics: The Clinical Use of Drugs, Applied Therapeutics, Inc. Barar F S K., Text Book of Pharmacology, Interprint, New Delhi.

  • Goodman and Gilman's, The Pharmacological basis of Therapeutics; Editors: J G Hardman, L E Limbird, P B Molinoss, R W Ruddon and A G Gil, Pergamon Press.".

  • Kulkarni S.K., Handbook of Experimentals Pharmacology, Vallabh Prakashan Delhi.

  • Rang MP Dale MM, Riter lM., Pharmacology, Churchill Livingstone.

  • C.R. Craig and R.E Stitze: Mordern Pharmacology (Lippincott).

  • Color Atlas of Pharmacology, 3rd Edition

  • Stockly Drug Interactions

  • Oxford Medical Dictionary

  • Herbal- Drug interaction

Pharmacotherapeutics

  • Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics - Roger and Walker, Churchill Livingstone publication

  • Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics - Eric T. Herfindal, Williams and Wilkins Publication

  • Applied Therapeutics: The Clinical Use of Drugs. Lloyd Young and Koda-Kimble MA]

Hospital and Clinical Pharmacy

Pharmacy Jurisprudence

  • S.P Agarwal and R.K Khanna: Pharmaceutical Jurisprudence, Tata Publishers

  • Forensic Pharmacy by B. Suresh

  • Text book of Forensic Pharmacy by B.M. Mithal

  • N.K Jain: Pharmaceutical Jurisprudence

  • A text book of Forensic Pharmacy by N.K. Jain

  • Drugs and Cosmetics Act and Rules by Govt. of India publications.

  • Medicinal and Toilet preparations act 1955 by Govt. of India publications.

  • Narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances act by Govt. of India publications

  • Drugs and Magic Remedies act by Govt. of India publications.

Computer Applications & Basic Electronics  

  • Grogona P, Programming in Pascal, Adeison Wesley, Reading, M A ., Hunt N and Shelley J. Computers and Commonsense, Prentice _ Hall of India, New Delhi.

  • Jensen K and Wirth N., Pascal User Manual and Report, Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi.

  • Popst and Perrum "Computer Aided Drug Design", Academic Press, New York.

  • Rajanunan V, Computer Programmig, Pascal, Prentice- Hall of India, New Delhi, I983.

  • Wirth N, Systematic Programming an Introduction, Prentice Hall Englewood Cliff's New Jersey.

Mathematics (Statistics)

  • R.D. Sharma, Class 11 and 12th, CBSE, NCERT course

  • Boltons, Pharmaceutical Statistics. Practical and Clinical Applications, MarceI Dekker, N Y.

  • Daniel W W, Biostatistics. A Foundation for Analysis in Health Sciences, John Wiley, NY.

  • Grewal B S, Higher Engineering Mathematics, Khanna Publishers, New Delhi. Gupta S P, Statistical Methods, Sultan Chand & Co., New Delhi.

Other Important Pharmacy Reference Books

  • Gennaro  et  al., Ed. “Remington: The Science & Practice of Pharmacy,” 20 th  ed., Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2000.

  • Chittion & Witcofski : “Nuclear Pharmacy,” Lea & Febiger.Aiiwodd & Fell

  • The Merck Index, Mark & Co., Inc NJ.

  • Reynolds J E F, Martindale, The Extra Pharmacopoeia, The Pharmaceutical Press, London.

  • Comprehensive Pharmacy Review – Edt. Leon Shargel. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

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