A study on three models of hypertension : genetic, mineralocorticoid, and ethanol-induced
The Okamoto-Aoki strain of spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) is probably the most studied animal model of hypertension. Previous experience from our laboratory indicated that the vascular smooth muscle of the SHR is hyper-reactive to pressor agents in vitro, and that the sensitivity to calcium i...
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University of British Columbia
2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/24276 |