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venous capacitance vessels. At <strong>the</strong>rapeutic doses nicorandil has little efTect on blood<br />

pressure, with minimal increase in <strong>heart</strong> rate. Headache is <strong>the</strong> most frequently reported<br />

side-effect, with <strong>the</strong> majority reported in <strong>the</strong> early stages <strong>of</strong> treatment [91 ]. Nicorandil not<br />

only has beneficial vascular effects for patients with coronary artery disease, but since<br />

various animal experiments have shown it to be directly card ioprotect i ve [106,178,220-<br />

22 1], it may well protect cardiornyocytes from <strong>the</strong> detrimental effects <strong>of</strong> ischacmia.<br />

1.7.5 Pharmacological KATPchannel Blockers<br />

In common with <strong>the</strong> structural diversity <strong>of</strong> drugs that open potassium channels, <strong>the</strong><br />

blockers are also chemically different. KATP channel blockers fall into three clinical<br />

categones:<br />

1. Oral hypoglycaemic agents e. g. glibenclamide, tolbutamide<br />

2. Antiarrhythmic agents e. g. sernatilide<br />

3. Bradycardic agents e. g. tedisamil<br />

K vrp channels are blocked by anti-diabetic sulphonylurea drugs [9] with<br />

glibenclamide, <strong>the</strong> most widely used for this purpose [84]. GlIbenclamide has been<br />

reported to be effective in blocking KATP channels in <strong>the</strong> <strong>heart</strong> at a concentration <strong>of</strong> 0.1 -<br />

10 [tM (901. Glibenclamide has not been reported to block o<strong>the</strong>r types <strong>of</strong> K+ channels in<br />

cardiovascular tissues, suggesting that it is selective for K..<br />

%-I-p channels in <strong>the</strong>se tissues at<br />

concerntrations up to about 10 ýLM. O<strong>the</strong>r sulphonylureas can also block K,, %. I. p channels,<br />

but tolbutamide is much less potent than glibenclamide.<br />

Chemically different blockers<br />

that are site selective for KATP channels are 5-hydroxydecanoate for mitochondrial sites<br />

[2321 and HMR 1883 for sarcolernmal channels [ 1021. Glibenclamide , 5-HD and HMR<br />

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