Pink Pills For Women
Thursday, April 8th, 2010
New studies indicate the 3 drugs used to treat male impotence also appear to work in females, albeit a little differently, and should give the scientific community pause to take a second look at their potential in the 40 % of women who report sexual dysfunction, researchers say.
In one of the first studies of the effect of inhibitors - Viagra®, Levitra® and Cialis® - on the pudendal arteries that supply the penis, vagina and clitoris the blood needed to produce a satisfying sexual experience, Medical College of Georgia researchers showed the drugs relax the artery in male and female rats.
Although there was talk years ago of a pink pills for women to parallel the blue pills Viagra for men, early clinical trials found essentially no response in women.
MCG researchers decided to look again, first giving blue pills to constrict the internal pudendal arteries in male and female rats – as they would be in a non-erect state – then giving doses of each impotency blue pills to see the impact. The arteries from male rats displayed a relatively standard concentration-dependent relaxation – the more blue pills they got, the more they relaxed - while in females arteries, there was an initial relaxation then an odd oscillation between relaxation and contraction with subsequent dosing.
While they don't fully understand the swing, the unique female response likely provides more evidence that sexual function is more complex in females. They found one other distinction: females were more sensitive to Viagra® blue pills, or Sildenafil, while males were most sensitive to Levitra®, or vardenafil.