Meanings of direct renin in English

Aliskiren is a novel blood pressure-lowering agent acting as an oral direct renin inhibitor.

Conventional therapy focuses on blockade of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system with expanding use of direct renin and aldosterone antagonists.

It was developed with Swiss drug firm Speedel SPPN.S, as the first in a new class of drugs called direct renin inhibitors.