Pharmacodynamics and Conjugation

Minoxidil sulphate is a potent activator of the ATP-modulated potassium channel and thereby relaxes vascular smooth muscle to give a resultant antihypertensive effect. The actual sulphate metabolite is a relatively minor metabolite, the principal 

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