Article
Maternal involvement in the development of cardiovascular phenotype.
Experientia - 15 Apr 1992
McCarty R, Cierpial M A, Murphy C A, Lee J H, Fields-Okotcha C
Abstract excerpt
Over the past 20 years, laboratory studies of genetically defined animal models of human essential hypertension have provided valuable information on the pathophysiology of this disturbance in cardiovascular regulation. Relatively fewer studies have examined the impact of preweaning factors on the developing cardiovascular system of hypertensive animals. In our laboratory studies, we have utilized two inbred...
Topics
- Animals
- Cardiovascular Physiological Phenomena
- Cardiovascular System
- Crosses, Genetic
- Female
- Humans
- Hypertension
- Male
- Maternal Behavior
- Phenotype
- Rats
- Rats, Inbred SHR