High-salt diet reveals the hypertensive and renal effects of reduced nephron endowment.

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The extent to which a reduced nephron endowment contributes to hypertension and renal disease is confounded in models created by intrauterine insults that also demonstrate other phenotypes. Furthermore, recent data suggest that a reduced nephron endowment provides the "first hit" and simply increases the susceptibility to injurious stimuli. Thus we examined nephron number, glomerular volume, conscious mean...

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