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Soluble guanylate cyclase stimulator

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Reference excerpt

Soluble guanylate cyclase (sGC) stimulators are a class of drugs developed to treat heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, and other diseases. The first-in-class medication was riociguat, approved in 2013 for pulmonary hypertension. They have also been investigated for hypertension, systemic sclerosis, and sickle cell disease.

Background In 1998, the role of nitric oxide (NO) in cardiovascular disease received the Nobel Prize in Physiology. Although NO is still used to treat angina, its side effects, potential for tolerance, short duration of action, and narrow therapeutic index limit its therapeutic use. PDE5 inhibitors increase NO and are approved for erectile dysfunction, pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), and benign prostatic hyperplasia, but they are less effective in patients for whom NO production is suppressed, such as people with diabetes or obesity. Soluble guanylate cyclase is one of the downstream targets of NO, but the stimulators operate independently of it. sGC activators, another experimental class of drugs, may be more effective than stimulators when oxidative stress is high. The drugs are also considered to possibly have the potential to treat kidney disease, lung fibrosis, scleroderma, and sickle cell disease.

List of drugs

FDA approved Riociguat, approved in 2013 for pulmonary hypertension Vericiguat, approved in 2021 for heart failure

Investigational Praliciguat was tried in a phase II trial for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction Olinciguat was developed for sickle cell disease but its development was discontinued in 2020. Zagociguat (CY-6463) is under development for Alzheimer's disease and other indications

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Applications of Soluble guanylate cyclase stimulator

In research: Soluble guanylate cyclase stimulator appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Soluble guanylate cyclase stimulator in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Soluble guanylate cyclase stimulator is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Drugs by mechanism of action, Soluble guanylate cyclase stimulators, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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