Article
Longitudinal study of salt preferences in normotensive and hypertensive rats.
Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) - 1 Jan 2000
Ferrell F, Gray S D
Abstract excerpt
To determine whether age-related changes in salt preferences occur over the lifespans of spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKY), the same animals of each genotype were tested as juveniles, and as young and older adults. Taste preference ratios for NaCl and KCl, at concentrations from 0.001 to 1.0 M, were calculated using 24-hour, two-bottle preference tests of each salt versus distilled...
Topics
- Aging
- Animals
- Blood Pressure
- Food Preferences
- Genotype
- Hypertension
- Longitudinal Studies
- Male
- Potassium Chloride
- Rats
- Rats, Inbred SHR
- Rats, Inbred WKY