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A number of marketed dihydropyridine calcium channel blockers have mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist activity.
Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) - 1 Mar 2008
Dietz Jessica D, Du Sarah, Bolten Charles W, Payne Maria A, Xia Chunsheng, Blinn James R, Funder John W, Hu Xiao
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Calcium channel blockers are widely used antihypertensives. Mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists are also used to treat hypertension and heart failure. We report here that a number of widely used dihydropyridine class calcium channel blockers are able to inhibit aldosterone-induced activation of mineralocorticoid receptor. These dihydropyridines varied in the extent of their effect on mineralocorticoid...
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