Article
Elevated plasma adrenaline in spontaneously hypertensive rats.
Blood pressure - 1 Mar 1994
Jablonskis L T, Howe P R
Abstract excerpt
Having found that circulating adrenaline (AD) is selectively elevated in stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRSP) compared with Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKY), we extended the comparison to include other normotensive and hypertensive rat strains. Aortic catheters were implanted in young (5-7 weeks) and old (7-9 months) WKY, Black-Hooded Wistar (BHW), Sprague Dawley (SD), spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR)...
Topics
- Aging
- Animals
- Autonomic Nerve Block
- Blood Pressure
- Cerebrovascular Disorders
- Epinephrine
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Male
- Norepinephrine
- Rats
- Rats, Inbred SHR
- Rats, Inbred WKY
