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Female Wistar-Kyoto and SHR/y rats have the same genotype but different patterns of expression of renin and angiotensinogen genes.
Journal of hypertension - 1 Jun 1998
Milsted A, Marcelo M C, Turner M E, Ely D L
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OBJECTIVES: To evaluate whether renin and angiotensinogen gene expression in females from two strains of rats that share the same autosomes and X chromosomes differs. Female SHR/y rats have the parental Wistar-Kyoto rat autosomes and X chromosomes and have no chromosomes of spontaneously hypertensive rat origin; thus they are genetically equivalent to female Wistar-Kyoto rats. DESIGN AND METHODS: Because these...
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