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cilazapril (medicine) and Avanti (sh)


cilazapril (medicine)


cilazapril
<chemical> An angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor that is effective in the treatment of hypertension. Preliminary results also indicate its potential in the treatment of congestive heart failure. It is a prodrug that is hydrolyzed after absorption to its main metabolite cilazaprilat.

Pharmacological action: angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, antihypertensive agents.

Chemical name: 6H-Pyridazino(1,2-a)(1,2)diazepine-1-carboxylic acid, 9-((1-(ethoxycarbonyl)-3-phenylpropyl)amino)octahydro-10-oxo-, monohydrate, (1S-(1alpha,9alpha(R*)))-


Avanti (sh)




Historic kingdom, northern India.

Located on the overland trade routes between northern and southern India, it lay within present-day Madhya Pradesh. Its capital was at Ujjain. It flourished in the 6th-4th centuries BC as one of the great powers of northern India. In the 4th century BC it was conquered and annexed by Candra Gupta Maurya of Magadha. Ujjain, one of the seven holy cities of Hinduism, was renowned for its Beauty and wealth; it also became a centre of early Buddhism and Jainism.