...S. Kazda; B. Garthoff; G. Thomas 1. Calcium antagonists of the dihydropyridine type such as nifedipine and nitrendipine are potent antihypertensive drugs in various forms of hypertension in rats. Long term treatment with calcium antagonists lowers high blood pressure and reduces cardiac hypertrophy...

... with phaeochromocytoma also showed a similar antihypertensive response. © 1982 The Biochemical Society and the Medical Research Society 1982 calcium antagonists nifedipine CIinicalScience (1982) 63,471s-473s 471s Acute blood pressure-lowering effect of sublingual nifedipine: a clinical study H A R B A N S S...

...J. A. Millar; Kathleen McLean; J. L. Reid 1. The effect of the calcium antagonist nifedipine on the pressor and aldosterone responses to angiotensin II was studied in six normal subjects. 2. Blood pressure, pulse rate and plasma aldosterone, potassium and cortisol were measured during paired...

...L. Corea; N. Miele; M. Bentivoglio; E. Boschetti; E. Agabiti-Rosei; G. Muiesan 1. Nifedipine, a calcium antagonist drug, was given sublingually (10 mg) to seven normal subjects and 19 patients with essential hypertension. In addition, 12 of the hypertensive subjects then received nifedipine (10 mg...