Article
Ventilatory phenotypes among four strains of adult rats.
Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) - 1 Sept 2002
Hodges Matthew R, Forster Hubert V, Papanek Paula E, Dwinell Melinda R, Hogan Genevieve E
Abstract excerpt
Our purpose in this study was to identify different ventilatory phenotypes among four different strains of rats. We examined 114 rats from three in-house, inbred strains and one outbred strain: Brown Norway (BN; n = 26), Dahl salt-sensitive (n = 24), Fawn-hooded Hypertensive (FHH: n = 27), and outbred Sprague-Dawley rats (SD; n = 37). We measured eupneic (room air) breathing and the ventilatory responses to...
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