Browsing HMS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "calcium channel blocker"

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    • A deleterious gene-by-environment interaction imposed by calcium channel blockers in Marfan syndrome 

      Doyle, Jefferson J; Doyle, Alexander J; Wilson, Nicole K; Habashi, Jennifer P; Bedja, Djahida; Whitworth, Ryan E; Lindsay, Mark E; Schoenhoff, Florian; Myers, Loretha; Huso, Nick; Bachir, Suha; Squires, Oliver; Rusholme, Benjamin; Ehsan, Hamid; Huso, David; Thomas, Craig J; Caulfield, Mark J; Van Eyk, Jennifer E; Judge, Daniel P; Dietz, Harry C; Farrar, Carrie (eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd, 2015)
      Calcium channel blockers (CCBs) are prescribed to patients with Marfan syndrome for prophylaxis against aortic aneurysm progression, despite limited evidence for their efficacy and safety in the disorder. Unexpectedly, ...

    • Practical Radiosynthesis and Preclinical Neuroimaging of [11C]isradipine, A Calcium Channel Antagonist 

      Rotstein, Benjamin H.; Liang, Steven H.; Belov, Vasily V.; Livni, Eli; Levine, Dylan B.; Bonab, Ali A.; Papisov, Mikhail I.; Perlis, Roy H.; Vasdev, Neil (2016)
      In the interest of developing in vivo positron emission tomography (PET) probes for neuroimaging of calcium channels, we have prepared a carbon-11 isotopologue of a dihydropyridine Ca2+-channel antagonist, isradipine. ...