Hypertension in cafeteria-fed rats: alterations in renal alpha2-adrenoceptor subtypes.

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Obesity is a major cause of human essential hypertension and there are clear evidences that abnormal kidney functions play a key role in obesity hypertension. Feeding rats a cafeteria diet has been extensively used as an experimental model to study obesity and energy balance expenditure. The present study investigated whether rats fed a cafeteria diet develop hypertension with alterations in renal...

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