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All right, here I'm going to get into the good stuff. We're talking pharmacology. We're talking

medications used for the management of blood pressure. All right. First class of medications is the ACE inhibitors. Please, if there's anything you

remember here, remember the PRIL. That ending, Benazapril, lysinepril, capypril, and alapril, is going to

tell you this medication is an asinhibitor.

So first and foremost, remember that.

Mechanistically, these drugs inhibit what's called angiotensin converting enzyme,

and that blockade of that enzyme actually stops the production of angiotensin 2.

Angiotensin 2 causes vasoconstriction.

Remember when blood vessels constrict, that's going to increase blood pressure,

you know, similar to squeezing a hose. You know, that increases the,

you know, pressure of the water within that hose. Okay. So that constriction of the vessels is going to

be very, very important for raising blood pressure. So, you know, by blocking that angiotensin-2,

we're hoping to obviously cause more vasodilation,

where those vessels open up and blood pressure drops.

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