Article
Shared maternal influences in the development of high blood pressure in the spontaneously hypertensive (SHR) and Dahl salt-sensitive (SS/Jr) rat strains.
Behavioral and neural biology - 1 Mar 1992
Murphy C A, Fields-Okotcha C, McCarty R
Abstract excerpt
The influence of maternal environment on the development of high blood pressure in spontaneously hypertensive (SHR) and Dahl salt-sensitive (SS/Jr) rats was examined using the technique of reciprocal cross-fostering. Previous experiments from this laboratory demonstrated that adult blood pressure...
Topics
- Animals
- Blood Pressure
- Female
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Heart Rate
- Hypertension
- Male
- Maternal Behavior
- Phenotype
- Rats
- Rats, Inbred SHR
- Rats, Inbred Strains
- Social Environment
- Species Specificity