1980 年 38 巻 11 号 p. 1100-1104
History of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, their therapeutic role in hypertension and the recent world development trends towards them were reviewed briefly, and our continuous investigations in this field, which led to the discovery of a new potent ACE inhibitor, (2R, 4R) -2- (2-hydroxyphenyl) -3- (3-mercaptopropionyl) -4-thiazolidinecarboxylic acid (SA 446), were disclosed in this paper.