Genetic determinants of systolic and pulse pressure in an intercross between normotensive inbred rats

Hypertension

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 921-926

  Llamas, Bastien ^a   Lau, Catherine ^b   Cupples, William A ^b   Rainville, Marie Line ^a   Souzeau, Emmanuelle ^a   Deschepper, Christian F ^a  

^a CLIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Animal genetics; Blood pressure analysis; Blood pressure genetics; Models; Quantitative trait loci genetics; Rats inbred bn genetics; Vascular diseases ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AORTA PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHROMOSOME 16; CHROMOSOME 4; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; GENETIC LINKAGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PULSE PRESSURE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RAT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TELEMETRY;

EID: 33750236951     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.0000244758.50351.29     Document Type: Article

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