A low-carbohydrate/high-fat diet reduces blood pressure in spontaneously hypertensive rats without deleterious changes in insulin resistance

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 304, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Bosse, John D ^a   Lin, Han Yi ^a   Sloan, Crystal ^a   Zhang, Quan Jiang ^a   Abel, E Dale ^a   Pereira, Troy J ^b   Dolinsky, Vernon W ^b   Symons, J David ^a   Jalili, Thunder ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arterial function; Blood pressure; Diet; Heart; Hypertrophy

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; GLUCOSE; INSULIN; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; PROTEIN KINASE B;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; LIPID DIET; LOW CARBOHYDRATE DIET; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MESENTERIC ARTERY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; VASODILATATION;

ARTERIAL FUNCTION; BLOOD PRESSURE; DIET; HEART; HYPERTROPHY;

ANIMALS; AORTA; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOMEGALY; DIET, CARBOHYDRATE-RESTRICTED; DIET, HIGH-FAT; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MESENTERIC ARTERIES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOCARDIUM; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; PHOSPHORYLATION; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, WISTAR; VASODILATION;

EID: 84879161229     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00631.2012     Document Type: Article

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