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Current Hypertension Reviews

Editor-in-Chief

ISSN (Print): 1573-4021
ISSN (Online): 1875-6506

L-/N-type Calcium Channel Blockers and Proteinuria

Author(s): Katsuyuki Ando

Volume 9, Issue 3, 2013

Page: [210 - 218] Pages: 9

DOI: 10.2174/1573402110666140131155331

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Abstract

The first-line depressor agents for hypertensive patients with chronic kidney disease are the renin-angiotensin system inhibitors because of their antiproteinuric and reno-protective effects. However, only one renin-angiotensin system inhibitor often cannot achieve target blood pressure in patients with injured kidney. Thus, second-line antihypertensives are required. Calcium channel blockers are frequently added on the renin-angiotensin system inhibitors in hypertensive patients with chronic kidney disease. However, they do not always show reno-protective effects because of their glomerular pressure-increasing action; Antihypetensive calcium channel blockers suppress L-type calcium channels, which exist in glomerular afferent but not efferent arterioles, and their afferent arteriole-specific vasodilation causes glomerular hypertension. The decrease in glomerular pressure due to their systemic hypotesive effect is counteracted by the glomerular pressure-incresing action. However, L-/N-type calcium channel blockers inhibits norepinephrine release from the sympathetic nerve terminal by blockade of N-type calcium channels, and dilate both afferent and efferent arterioles, which were innervated sympathetically, resulting in decrease in glomerular pressure. Actually, we have demonstrated that an L-/N-type calcium channel blocker cilnidipine decreased urinary protein more greatly than an L-type calcium channel blocker amlodipine in the renin-angiotensin system inhibitor-treated patients with chronic kidney disease. Thus, L-/N-type calcium channel blockers are one of suitable candidates for the second-line antihypertensives in the renin-angiotensin system inhibitor-treated hypertensive patients with proteinuria.

Keywords: N-type calcium channel, chronic kidney disease, afferent arteriole, glomerular pressure, sympathetic nervous system.


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