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Contribution of autosomal loci and the Y chromosome to the stress response in rats.
Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) - 1 Feb 2000
Dumas P, Pausová Z, Kren V, Krenová D, Pravenec M, Dumont M, Ely D, Turner M, Sun Y, Tremblay J, Hamet P
Abstract excerpt
Stress is a critical contributor to cardiovascular diseases through its impact on blood pressure variability and cardiac function. Familial clustering of reactivity to stress has been demonstrated in human subjects, and some rodent models of hypertension are hyperresponsive to stress. Therefore, the present study was designed to uncover the genetic determinants of the stress response. We performed a total genome...
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