Article
Newborn and adult recombinant inbred strains: a tool to search for genetic determinants of target organ damage in hypertension.
Kidney international - 1 Jun 1998
Hamet P, Pausova Z, Dumas P, Sun Y L, Tremblay J, Pravenec M, Kunes J, Krenova D, Kren V
Abstract excerpt
It has been proposed that one of the primary events in the development of essential hypertension is a growth-related process initiated as early as during fetal development. Differences in kidney size have been observed between most rat models of hypertension and their respective controls. In this...
Topics
- Aging
- Animals
- Animals, Newborn
- Blood Pressure
- Genome
- Hypertension
- Kidney
- Kidney Diseases
- Organ Size
- Phenotype
- Quantitative Trait, Heritable
- Rats
- Rats, Inbred SHR
- Recombination, Genetic