the drugs verapamil and diltiazem are the only nondihydropyridine calcium channel blockers. The two types of calcium channel blockers differ in which sites in calcium channels they bind to.

Calcium channel blockers are one type. They treat AFib by slowing your heart rate and relaxing the heart muscle so it doesn't have to work as hard. These medications won't stop AFib from getting ...

L-type calcium channel blockers (LCCBs)—the most widely used drugs for treating hypertension—may harm the heart as much as help it, according to a new study. "In the United States, nearly half ...

Figure 1: L-type calcium channel blockers (CCBs) inhibit filopodia formation and L-type calcium channels are functional in cancer cells. Figure 5: Integrin activation promotes filopodia formation ...

Patch clamp analysis indicated that omega-conotoxin GVIA (CnTX), an N-type calcium channel inhibitor, suppressed voltage-dependent barium currents. During steroidogenesis, CnTX significantly ...

--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cavion, Inc., a clinical stage biotechnology company developing novel therapeutics for neurological diseases, announced today that their first-in-class T-type calcium channel ...

Because azithromycin is only a weak inhibitor of CYP34A, the type of intensification of the calcium-channel blocker that occurs with clarithromycin is not expected. The most common calcium-channel ...

The type 1 ryanodine receptor (RyR1) is an important calcium release channel in skeletal muscles essential for muscle contraction. It mediates calcium release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum ...

New research has identified the specific biological mechanism behind the muscle dysfunction found in myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) and further shows that calcium channel blockers can reverse ...

A dysfunction of a certain Calcium channel, the so called P/Q-type channel, in neurons of the cerebellum is sufficient to cause different motor diseases as well as a special type of epilepsy.