A high-potassium diet reduces infarct size and improves vascular structure in hypertensive rats.

Dorrance, Anne M

A high-potassium diet reduces infarct size and improves vascular structure in hypertensive rats. [electronic resource] - American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology Jan 2007 - R415-22 p. digital

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

0363-6119

10.1152/ajpregu.00438.2005 doi


Animals
Blood Pressure--drug effects
Blood Vessels--pathology
Body Weight--drug effects
Cell Proliferation--drug effects
Collagen--biosynthesis
Diet
Hypertension--complications
Infarction, Middle Cerebral Artery--etiology
Male
Muscle Contraction--physiology
Muscle, Smooth, Vascular--drug effects
Potassium--blood
Potassium, Dietary--pharmacology
Rats
Rats, Inbred SHR
Rats, Inbred WKY
Receptors, Mitogen--biosynthesis
Receptors, Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor--biosynthesis
Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
Telemetry