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  • n  a drug that causes dilation of blood vessels

  • In the very short term, alcohol is a vasodilator, causing blood vessels to relax and pressure to fall.
  • Doctors should tell their elderly patients whether a drink would help them (alcohol is a vasodilator, relaxing the coronary arteries) or hurt them (cocktails are bad for .
  • That cortical extract is a vasodilator, it relaxes the blood vessels.
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  • New research may boost drug efficacy in treating pulmonary arterial hypertension
    The development of new, more effective vasodilators to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension has been hampered because of their systemic toxicity and adverse side effects. An international team of investigators seeking to surmount these problems and increase drug efficacy have determined that a vascular homing peptide can selectively target hypertensive pulmonary arteries to boost the pulmonary ...
    Jan. 8, 2014 - Science Daily

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