Population
Sprague-Dawley rats
Comparison
Insertion of a 2.5-mm clip into the left renal… vs Sham operation
Design
Preclinical
Follow-up
5 weeks
Authors
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Hypothesis-generating for phased RAS changes in renovascular hypertension; leaves open human translation and therapeutic timing.
In a 2K1C rat model, attenuated ACE2 contributes to initiating hypertension, while upregulated ACE and unsuppressed AT1R maintain it.
Kim et al. (2016) studied this question.