Aortas from spontaneously hypertensive rats exhibit greater sensitivity and contractile responsiveness to ouabain and K+-free solutions compared to normotensive controls, which is sensitive to transmembrane Na+ movements.
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May implicate altered vascular Na+/K+-ATPase in hypertension models; hypothesis-generating and leaves open human translation.
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