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L-NAME and dietary salt significantly increased mean arterial pressure in hooded rats compared to controls (e.g., 181.7 vs 94.2 mm Hg for L-NAME, P<0.05), with L-NAME also attenuating endothelium-dependent relaxation.
Hooded (Aguti) rats are a viable model for experimental hypertension, demonstrating that endothelium-dependent and independent relaxations are largely preserved except for an attenuated response to acetylcholine during chronic NOS inhibition.
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Hooded rats may model L-NAME/salt hypertension; leaves open translation to human endothelial dysfunction or therapy.
Experimental hypertension studies are few in the hooded (Aguti) rat. The present study was designed to investigate the usefulness of this rat strain for experimental hypertension studies and to test the hypothesis that the hypertension may be associated with a diminution of endothelium dependent and independent relaxations. Hypertension was induced in inbred hooded rats (n=8 each) by administering 8% salt in the diet and /or 100 mg/kg/day Nomega-nitro-L-arginine-methyl-ester (L-NAME) in the drinking water for six and/or four weeks respectively. The rats were anaesthetized using a 25% urethane and 1% chloralose mixture given intraperitoneally at a dose of 5 mg/kg. Their blood pressure was measured invasively. Thereafter, relaxations of rat aortic preparations to acetylcholine, histamine and sodium nitroprusside (SNP) were assessed using standard organ bath conditions. Probability level of 0.05 was taken as statistically significant. The mean arterial pressure (MAP;mm Hg) rose significantly in all test groups (Salt: 148.3 +/- 4.6; L-NAME: 181.7 +/-8.3; Salt+L-NAME:154.9 +/-8.7) compared with control (94.2 +/-6.8; [P < 0.05]. The MAP was significantly [P < 0.05] higher in the L-NAME group than in all the other groups. The heart rate fell significantly in the salt + L-NAME group compared to control [P <0.05].The IC50 of acetylcholine in aortic rings from L-NAME rats (7.9 x 10(-1) +/- 6.0 x 10(-3)) was significantly higher than in rings from control (9.4 x 10(-8) +/- 2.8 x 10(-8)), salt (7.8 x 10(-7) +/- 4.7 x 10(-7)) and salt + L-NAME (3.3 x 10 (-7) +/- 2.1 x 10(-7)) rats [P < 0.05]. The IC50 of histamine and SNP in the rings from the test groups of rats showed no significant difference from control. Also, endothelium dependent and independent relaxations were preserved in the various forms of hypertension studied except in chronic NOS inhibition where the former was attenuated in response to acetylcholine.
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Mojiminiyi et al. (2010) studied Experimental hypertension (n=32). L-NAME and/or 8% dietary salt vs. Normal rat chow (0.3% NaCl) and water was evaluated on Mean arterial pressure (MAP) (p=<0.05). L-NAME and dietary salt significantly increased mean arterial pressure in hooded rats compared to controls (e.g., 181.7 vs 94.2 mm Hg for L-NAME, P<0.05), with L-NAME also attenuating endothelium-dependent relaxation.
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