Identification of a candidate gene responsible for the high blood pressure of spontaneously hypertensive rats.

doi:10.1097/00004872-199210000-00007

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Identification of a candidate gene responsible for the high blood pressure of spontaneously hypertensive rats.

Journal of hypertension - 1 Oct 1992

Iwai N, Inagami T

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OBJECTIVE: We have recently isolated a gene, designated as the SA gene, which is more than 10 times more abundantly expressed in the kidneys of spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) than in those of Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats. To address the issue whether the SA gene is one of the genes responsible...

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Animals
Blotting, Southern
Female
Gene Expression
Gene Frequency
Genotype
Hypertension
Male
Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
Rats
Rats, Inbred SHR
Rats, Inbred WKY

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