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. 2022 Dec 2;27(23):8448. doi: 10.3390/molecules27238448

Table 1.

Different PDE families, their tissue and organ distribution and their main inhibitors, focusing on those mentioned in the main text.

PDE Type Distribution Inhibitors Reference
PDE1 Heart, lungs, brain, smooth muscle. Ibudilast, nimodipine, dioclein, IC86340, IC224, IC295. [22,40]
PDE2 Heart, kidneys, brain, platelets, adrenal glands, lungs, liver, endothelial cells. Ibudilast, oxindole, EHNA, ND7001, BAY-60–7750, PDP, IC933. [22,40,45]
PDE3 Heart, kidneys, brain, lungs, smooth muscle, liver, platelets, adipocytes, immune cells. Ibudilast, cilostazol, milrinone, cilostamide, siguazodan. [22,40,56,58,59]
PDE4 Heart, kidneys, brain, platelets, Sertolli cells, liver, smooth muscle, lungs, endothelial cells, immune cells. Ibudilast, rolipram, cilomast, roflumilast, NCS 613. [22,40,45,55,57]
PDE5 Platelets, heart, lungs, smooth muscle, brain, endothelial cells. Ibudilast, DMPPO, zaprinast, vardenafil, sildenafil, tadalafil [40,45]
PDE6 Lungs, pineal gland, photoreceptors. DMPPO, zaprinast, sildenafil, vardenafil. [40]
PDE7 Heart, skeletal muscle, T lymphocytes, kidneys, brain, pancreas. IC242, BRL 50481, ASB16165. [40]
PDE8 Brain, eyes, testes, liver, heart, skeletal muscle, kidneys, thyroid, ovaries, T lymphocytes. PF-04957325. [40,42]
PDE9 Lungs, kidneys, liver, brain. PF-04447943, BAY-73–6691 [40]
PDE10 Brain, testes, thyroid. Ibudilast, MP-10, Papaverine, TP-10. [20,40,66,67]
PDE11 Heart, liver, skeletal muscle, pituitary gland, prostate. Ibudilast, non-selective. [20,40]