Research Area: Cardiovascular Disease Biological Activity: Nitrendipine is a dihydropyridine calcium channel blocker with an IC50 of 95 nM.It is an investigational dihydropyridine calcium-channel antagonist for the treatment of hypertension. Nitrendipine and BRL 38227 cause concentration-related inhibitions of the inositol phosphate response to histamine (100 µM). Similar maximal inhibitions were caused by each agent (55-58%). Inhibitory effect of BRL 38227 was reduced in potency (IC50 = 5.5 µM), but not magnitude, in the presence of glibenclamide (0.5 µM). [1][2]References on Nitrendipine[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrendipine, , [2] DICP., 1990 Feb, 24(2):167-75. |