Recent advances in selective α1-adrenoreceptor antagonists as antihypertensive agents Review Article

Hypertension is one of the most serious health problems of the modern world with a continuous rise in the number of patients. Selective α1-adrenoreceptor antagonists though have many advantages and uses in the management of arterial hypertension, their lack of specificity at the level of α1-adr subtypes leads to multiple side effects. Existence of multiple α1-adr subtypes holds great promise for the discovery and development of more specific and selective drug molecules, targeting only one α1-adr subtype at a time and thus relative freedom from side effects. Herein, the research done on the discovery and evaluation of a variety of chemically diverse structures as selective antagonists of α1-adr and α1-adr subtypes in recent years has been reviewed.