[Glucocorticoid receptor mechanism of regulation of the activity of angiotensin-converting enzyme and new prospects in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases].

Based on the concept of glucocorticoid-receptor induction of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE), approaches to inhibiting enzyme induction with drugs that suppress the function of type II cytoplasmic glucocorticoid receptors, (genuine glucocorticoid receptors), are suggested. Three types of inhibiting the function of type II glucocorticoid receptors by drugs were distinguished. Type I is characterized by competition of the drugs with natural and synthetic glucocorticoids for interaction with glucocorticoid receptors (cortexolone, progesterone); type II is determined by irreversible inactivation of type II glucocorticoid receptors (aminazine, tisercin); type III is related to an increase of interaction of transcorticoid receptors with natural glucocorticoids which is accompanied by a reduction of the interaction of natural glucocorticoids with genuine glucocorticoid receptors (analgin, amidopyrine). It has been established that the drugs that provoke irreversible inactivation of the function of type II glucocorticoid receptors decrease ACE activity in blood plasma and in the lungs, that may serve the main reason for their high hypotensive effect in arterial hypertension. A concept is advanced, providing evidence for the use of the classical ACE inhibitors and of type II glucocorticoid receptor inhibitors.