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It started life as UK 92480,
这个编号为UK92480的化合物
one of millions of compounds
来自辉瑞制药公司的新药仓库
in the stores at the drug company Pfizer.
是千百万个化合物中的一员
They were looking for a new drug for angina,
当时专家们正在寻找治疗心绞痛的新
something that would relax blood vessels
一种能够放松心脏
around the heart.
周围血管的药物
After screening hundreds of
在筛查过无数的化合物之后
thousands of compounds, they ended up with UK 92480.
他们最终锁定了UK92480
But its trials in humans were a let-down.
人体实验结果却不尽如人意
It was about to be consigned
正当药物要被重新收回仓库时
back to the stores when the trial volunteers
受试者们开始不断索要药片
started coming back and reporting an unusual side-effect -
并反馈一种不同寻常的副作用
lots of erections.
阴茎勃起
Add the drug the relaxation's
加入药物之后 其松弛度变大
get larger but its trace is upside down.
不过药物作用曲线却是反过来的
By making a crude mock-up of the
通过制作人类性器官的粗略模拟模型
human sexual apparatus, senior scientist Chris Wayman
高级研究员克里斯·韦曼使用了
found an ingenious way to test this anecdotal evidence.
一种巧妙的方法来检验这种有趣的现象
