[Consomic approach to blood pressure and metabolic diseases in Lyon hypertensive rats].

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Genetically hypertensive rats of the Lyon strain (LH) have both high blood pressure and a metabolic syndrome. Linkage studies have disclosed quantitative trait loci of interest on chromosomes 2, 13 and 17. In the present work we designed consomic rats, i.e. LH rats in which a full chromosome was replaced by the same chromosome originating from the Brown-Norway (BN) normotensive strain. Rats consomic for...

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