Article
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
Abstract excerpt
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)...
Topics
- Animals
- Aorta
- Blood Pressure
- Blood Vessels
- Body Weight
- Dietary Fats, Unsaturated
- Fatty Acids
- Fish Oils
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- In Vitro Techniques
- Male
- Mesenteric Arteries
- Rats
- Rats, Inbred SHR