Population
Spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKY) (n=7 per group)
Comparison
Electrical field stimulation, desipramine, and… vs Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKY)
Design
Preclinical
Authors
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Suggests alpha-2R impairment drives cardiac sympathetic excess in SHR; hypothesis-generating for human hypertension mechanisms.
Impairment of the alpha-2R mediated presynaptic negative feedback mechanism by reduced expression of the alpha-2R subtype A may increase cardiac net secretion of norepinephrine in spontaneously hypertensive rats.
Zugck et al. (2003) studied this question.
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