Withdrawal reveals lack of effect of prolonged antihypertensive treatment on intrinsic aortic wall stiffness in senescent spontaneously hypertensive rats

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 898-904

  Marque, V ^c   Grima, M ^a   Kieffer, P ^b   Capdeville Atkinson, C ^b   Atkinson, J ^b   Lartaud Idjouadiene, I ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Ageing; Captopril hydrochlorothiazide; Collagen; Elastin; Hypertension; Wall stiffness; Wall stress; Withdrawal

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; CAPTOPRIL PLUS HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE; COLLAGEN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; ELASTIN; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM;

ANIMAL MODEL; AORTA WALL; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EVALUATION; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PULSE WAVE; RAT; REDUCTION; RIGIDITY; SENESCENCE; STRESS; YOUNG MODULUS;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTA, THORACIC; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAPTOPRIL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ELASTICITY; HYPERTENSION; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

EID: 0036050024     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1681.2002.03747.x     Document Type: Article

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