RE: An Unexpected Side Effect of Viagra Could Save Thousands Of Lives by simplifylife

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This is certainly an interesting thing you've brought to my attention and I'll surely be keeping an eye out for further developments on this. But i will need a lot more molecular mechanism explanation to be convinced on how this works to be honest.

>Viagra helps the production of cGMP.

Actually, no. Viagra (sildenafil) is a phosphodiesterase (PDE) inhibitor, predominantly an inhibitor of PDE 5.

PDE is the enzyme that breaks down cGMP. So viagra merely prevents the breakdown of the _already existing_ cGMP. It doesn't increase the production of cGMP.

But nonetheless, thanks for bringing this research article to my attention. This will be wonderful if it goes through a successful human trial phase.

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@kralizec ·
ah, interesting. Thank you for the correction.

In what I was reading it was said roughly that it increases the amount of cGMP. So I assumed that means increases its production.
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