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Dietary fish oil administration retards blood pressure development and influences vascular properties in the spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) but not in the stroke prone-spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR-SP).
Blood pressure - 1 Mar 1994
Bexis S, Lungershausen Y K, Mano M T, Howe P R, Kong J Q, Birkle D L, Taylor D A, Head R J
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In the present study, we compared the blood pressure in the SHR-SP and in the spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) after dietary administration of fish oil from 4 to 17 weeks of age. The retarding influence of dietary fish oils on the development of hypertension was prominent in the SHR (26 mmHg) and not evident in the SHR-SP (8 mmHg). The enhanced development of blood pressure in both the SHR and the SHR-SP is...
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