Remodelling of mesenteric arteries in genetically hypertensive rats cross-fostered from birth to normotensive Wistar rats

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 859-864

  Ledingham, Janet M ^a   Ashton, Nick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Cross fostering; Genetically hypertensive rats; Mesenteric resistance artery; Morphology

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CALCULATION; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMORAL ARTERY; HEREDITARY HYPERTENSION; MESENTERIC ARTERY; MOTHER; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERFUSION; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; STEREOMETRY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TUNICA MEDIA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BODY WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HYPERTENSION; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; TIME; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERIES; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, WISTAR; TIME FACTORS; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 33644688233     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: 14401681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.2010.04277.x     Document Type: Article

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