Article
Genetics of blood pressure and associated phenotypes in the Lyon rat.
Clinical and experimental hypertension (New York, N.Y. : 1993) - 1 Jan 2000
Sassard J, Vincent M, Oréa V, Privat P, Bataillard A
Abstract excerpt
The Lyon model of genetic hypertension is made of 3 simultaneously selected strains, one hypertensive (LH) one normotensive (LN) and one with low blood pressure (LL). Since LN and LL rats exhibit the same blood pressure (BP) LH rats can be compared to 2 genetically pure and different strains of c...
Topics
- Animals
- Blood Glucose
- Blood Pressure
- Body Weight
- Cholesterol
- Crosses, Genetic
- Disease Models, Animal
- Genetic Linkage
- Hypertension
- Hypotension
- Insulin
- Male
- Molecular Biology
- Phenotype
- Rats
- Renin
- Triglycerides