Losartan

/lˈɒsɑːtən/

/lˈɑːsɑːɹtən/

[noun]

Losartan

[NOUN]

a medication used to treat high blood pressure, heart conditions, and kidney damage in diabetes

Examples

1. See right now, a lot of people are using expensive prescription medicine or injections to treat allergies, but high TFG-beta signaling can be treated with something called Losartan, which is a very old simple drug that's been used for years to control high blood pressure.

2. Beta blockers have been shown to slow aortic dilation, and the angiotensin receptor blocker losartan, which decreases TGF-β signaling, can slow dilation even more when given in conjunction with a beta blocker.

3. The reason why this comes up is that ACE inhibitors which are the drugs with the suffix prill such as Lisinopril, Ramipril, Captopril, or ARB's with a suffix sartain such as valsartan, candesartan, losartan.