Testosterone Exacerbates Hypertension and Reduces Pressure-Natriuresis in Male Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats

Hypertension

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 435-439

  Reckelhoff, Jane F ^a   Zhang, Huimin ^a   Granger, Joey P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMODYNAMICS; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY; KIDNEY CIRCULATION; MALE; NATRIURESIS; ORCHIECTOMY; ORGAN SIZE; OVARIECTOMY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; SYSTOLE; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORMONAL REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY; MALE; NATRIURESIS; ORCHIECTOMY; ORGAN SIZE; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RENAL CIRCULATION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SYSTOLE; TESTOSTERONE; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 0031611277     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: 15244563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.31.1.435     Document Type: Article

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