Effects of preweaning doxazosin treatment on adult pressure in the spontaneously hypertensive rat

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 555-557

  Boesen, Erika I ^a   Lewis, Tamara V ^a   Kett, Michelle M ^a   Anderson, Warwick P ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

1 adrenoceptor; Hypertension; Spontaneously hypertensive rats; Sympathetic nervous system

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; DOXAZOSIN;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; HEART RATE; HYPERTENSION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOMEGALY; DOXAZOSIN; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HYPERTENSION; MALE; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, ALPHA-1;

EID: 0041426298     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1681.2003.03868.x     Document Type: Article

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