Comparison of the time courses and potencies of the vasodilator effects of nifedipine and felodipine in the human forearm

Blood Pressure

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 217-222

  Van Der Lee, R ^a   Pfaffendorf, M ^a   Koopmans, R P ^a   Van Lieshout, J J ^a   Van Montfrans, G A ^a   Van Zwieten, P A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Dihydropyridine calcium antagonists; Forearm; Physico chemical properties; Plethysmography; Time course; Vasodilator potency

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; FELODIPINE; MACROGOL 400; NIFEDIPINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ADULT; ARM BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUFF; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG POTENCY; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMED CONSENT; LIPOPHILICITY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TIME; VASODILATATION; VEIN OCCLUSION PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; VOLUNTEER; WRIST; ADOLESCENT; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; HEMODYNAMICS; KINETICS; PHARMACOKINETICS; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; VASCULARIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FELODIPINE; FOREARM; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; KINETICS; MALE; NIFEDIPINE; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; THERAPEUTIC EQUIVALENCY; VASODILATION; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 0035215474     PISSN: 08037051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08037050152669738     Document Type: Article

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