Nitrendlpioe (Bay e 5009) is a new calcium antagonist antihypertenslve agent similar in structure and function to nifedlplne. Nitreodipine was tested in a range of single and repeated doses in 10 adult males with uncomplicated mild to moderate hypertension. The treatment goal was reduction of diastollc blood pressure to 90 mm Hg or less. The dose that achiered goal Mood pressure ranged between ...

Purpose: The aim of the work was to prepare nitrendipne-loaded Eudragit RL 100 microspheres to achieve sustained release nitrendipine. Method: Nitrendipne-loaded Eudragit RL 100 microspheres were prepared by an emulsion-solvent evaporation method using ethanol/liquid paraffin system. The resultant microspheres were evaluated for average particle size, drug loading, in vitro drug release and rel...

Electron microscopy and quantitative stereological techniques were used to study the dynamics of the docked granule pool in the rat pancreatic beta-cell. The mean number of granules per beta-cell was 11,136. After equilibration in RPMI containing 5.6 mmol/l glucose, 6.4% of the granules (approximately 700) were docked at the plasma membrane (also measured as [means +/- SE] 4.3 +/- 0.6 docked gr...

The cause of airway smooth muscle (ASM) hypercontractility in asthma is not fully understood. The relationship of spontaneous intracellular calcium oscillation frequency in ASM to asthma severity was investigated. Oscillations were increased in subjects with impaired lung function abolished by extracellular calcium removal, attenuated by caffeine and unaffected by verapamil or nitrendipine. Whe...

Several large population-based or clinical trial studies have suggested that certain dihydropyridine (DHP) L-type calcium channel blockers (CCBs) used for the treatment of hypertension may confer protection against the development of Alzheimer disease (AD). However, other studies with drugs of the same class have shown no beneficial clinical effects. To determine whether certain DHPs are able t...

Hypertension is the most important cardiovascular risk factor for stroke. Blood pressure reduction by antihypertensive treatment is clearly efficacious in the prevention of stroke (both primary and secondary), although no clear differences have yet been observed between antihypertensive drug classes. However, a recent study reported the clear superiority of the angiotensin-receptor blocker epro...