An update on renal genetic mechanisms of spontaneous hypertension in rats and in human essential hypertension is presented. The findings are discussed, highlighting the search of a possible link between the discovered genetic abnormality and the renal function changes that may determine the disease. The analogies (and/or differences) between the numerous positive findings obtained in animal models and the relatively scarce ones obtained in humans are discussed.
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Daniele Cusi (1997) studied this question.