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How snake venom helped create a blood pressure drug
Research on venom from Brazil’s Bothrops jararaca helped reveal a peptide that affects blood pressure. The finding guided development of captopril, the first approved angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor, introduced in 1981 and widely used to treat hypertension and heart conditions.
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