Encyclopedia > Phosphodiesterase inhibitor

  Article Content

Phosphodiesterase inhibitor

A phosphodiesterase inhibitor is any drug used in the treatment of congestive cardiac failure (CCF) that work by blocking the inactivation of cyclic AMP and act like sympathetic simulation, increasing cardiac output. There are five major subtypes of phosphodiesterase (PDE); the drugs enoximone (inhibits PDE IV) and milrinone (inhibits PDE IIIc) are most commonly used medically.



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Northwest Harbor, New York

... up of individuals and 8.2% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.59 and the average family size is 3.04. In the town ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 82.5 ms