Atorvastatin improves sodium handling and decreases blood pressure in salt-loaded rats with chronic renal insufficiency.

Juncos, Luis I

Atorvastatin improves sodium handling and decreases blood pressure in salt-loaded rats with chronic renal insufficiency. [electronic resource] - Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.) Sep 2012 - e23-8 p. digital

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

1873-1244

10.1016/j.nut.2012.02.008 doi


Animals
Atorvastatin
Blood Pressure--drug effects
Creatinine--blood
Diet
Fatty Acids, Unsaturated--urine
Heart Ventricles--drug effects
Heptanoic Acids--pharmacology
Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors--pharmacology
Hypertension--chemically induced
Kidney--drug effects
Male
Nephrectomy
Nitric Oxide--metabolism
Nitric Oxide Synthase--metabolism
Oxidative Stress--drug effects
Proteinuria--drug therapy
Pyrroles--pharmacology
Random Allocation
Rats
Rats, Sprague-Dawley
Renal Insufficiency, Chronic--complications
Sodium--adverse effects
Sodium Chloride, Dietary--adverse effects