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Dihydropyridine Drug Class

Medicines in this drug class are grouped together in the Everyone Healthy medication database. This page is educational only and should not be used as personal prescribing advice.

Caution: A drug class groups medicines that may share similar actions or uses. Individual medicines in the same class can still have different cautions, interactions and suitability.

Drug class overview

Dihydropyridine overview

Dihydropyridine

Dihydropyridine is a molecule based upon pyridine, and the parent of a class of molecules that have been semi-saturated with two substituents replacing one double bond. They are particularly well known in pharmacology as L-type calcium channel blockers.


Examples include:

Others are Amlodipine, aranidipine, azelnidipine, barnidipine, benidipine, cilnidipine, clevidipine, cronidipine, darodipine, dexniguldipine, efonidipine, elnadipine, elgodipine, Felodipine, flordipine, furnidipine, iganidipine, Isradipine, lacidipine, lemildipine, Lercanidipine, manidipine, mesuldipine, Nicardipine, Nifedipine, niguldipine, Nimodipine, niludipine, nilvadipine, nimodipine, nisoldipine, Nitrendipine, olradipine, oxodipine, palonidipine, pranidipine, sagandipine, sornidipine, teludipine, tiamdipine, trombodipine, watanidipine.

1,4-Dihydropyridine

Identifiers
CAS number 3337-17-5
PubChem 104822
SMILES
Properties
Molecular formula C5H7N
Molar mass 81.12 g/mol
Except where noted otherwise, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C, 100 kPa)
Infobox references
 
 
Nimodipine

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Linked medicines

1 medicines in this class