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In blood pressure telemetry experiments, SKA-121 (100 mg/kg i.p.) significantly lowers mean arterial blood pressure in normotensive and hypertensive wild-type but not in K_Ca3.1^-/- mice. SKA-121 can be used as a new K_Ca3.1 selective pharmacological tool compound despite its relatively short half-life in mice. A lower dose of 30 mg/kg of SKA-121 does not produce significant alterations in MAP. The vehicle, peanut oil/DMSO (9:1 v/v, for SKA-121), does not cause significant alterations in MAP or HR. SKA-121 has a short half-life (~20 minutes), and plasma decay is extremely rapid (21.3±2.4 μM at 5 minutes; 483±231 nM at 1 hour and 53±44 nM at 4 hours). Since SKA-121 is relatively well soluble (logP=1.79) and can potentially be added to drinking water in animal experiments, it orally is also administered, and find that it has an oral availability of roughly 25%^[1].