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The Dahl salt-sensitive rat is a spontaneous model of superimposed preeclampsia.
American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology - 1 Jul 2015
Gillis Ellen E, Williams Jan M, Garrett Michael R, Mooney Jennifer N, Sasser Jennifer M
Abstract excerpt
The mechanisms of the pathogenesis of preeclampsia, a leading cause of maternal morbidity and death worldwide, are poorly understood in part due to a lack of spontaneous animal models of the disease. We hypothesized that the Dahl salt-sensitive (S) rat, a genetic model of hypertension and kidney disease, is a spontaneous model of superimposed preeclampsia. The Dahl S was compared with the Sprague-Dawley (SD) rat,...
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