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Why some heart medicines stop working over time
Original Title
Organic Nitrate Therapy, Nitrate Tolerance, and Nitrate-Induced Endothelial Dysfunction: Emphasis on Redox Biology and Oxidative Stress
doi:10.1089/ars.2015.63761%
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What’s the bottom line?
Some heart medicines like nitroglycerin work at first by releasing a gas that opens blood vessels, but over time they make too much harmful rust-like stuff in the body, which breaks their own mechanism. But one medicine, PETN, actually helps clean up that rust instead.
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