Drug Discovery for Overcoming Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD): Development of Drugs on Endothelial Cell Protection for Overcoming CKD

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is becoming a major public health problem worldwide. It is important to protect endothelial function in CKD treatment because injury of the endothelium is a critical event for the generation and progression of CKD. Recently, clinical studies showed that nifedipine, an an...

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Main Authors: Keisuke Ishizawa, Kunihisa Yamaguchi, Yuya Horinouchi, Yayoi Fukuhara, Soichiro Tajima, Shuichi Hamano, Shuhei Tomita, Koichiro Tsuchiya, Toshiaki Tamaki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2009-01-01
Series:Journal of Pharmacological Sciences
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1347861319312903