Chronic Hypoxia–Induced Angiogenesis Normalizes Blood Pressure in Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats

Autor: Jean-Sébastien Silvestre, Micheline Duriez, Clément Cochain, Philippe Bonnin, Bernard I. Levy, Céline Loinard, José Vilar, Ludovic Waeckel
Rok vydání: 2008
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Zdroj: Circulation Research. 103:761-769
ISSN: 1524-4571
0009-7330
DOI: 10.1161/circresaha.108.182758
Popis: We hypothesized that activation of angiogenesis by chronic hypoxia may affect vascular resistance and, subsequently, blood pressure levels in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs). Five-week-old prehypertensive SHRs and age-matched normotensive Wistar–Kyoto (WKY) rats (n=8 per group) were maintained under normobaric normoxic or hypoxic (10% O 2 ) conditions for 8 weeks. Three weeks later, the systolic blood pressure was lower by 26% in hypoxic SHRs compared to normoxic SHRs ( P P P P P P
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