ABSTRACT Various benefits of flavonoids for ameliorating cardiovascular diseases have been demonstrated. However, the lowering effects on blood pressure caused by antiproliferative potentials of flavonoids in vascular smooth muscle cells are rare. In this study, the antihypertensive effects of total flav...
O TERPY promove efeito hipotensor de maior magnitude em ratos hipertensos (SHR e 2R-1C) do que em ratos normotensos (Wistar e 2R). Foi demonstrado anteriormente que o endotélio prejudica o efeito vasodilatador do TERPY em aorta de Wistar. No entanto, observamos que o endotélio melhora os efeitos vasodi...
Objective: to investigate the effect of administration of supraphysiological âcaroteno on biological parameters (ectoscopy and blood pressure), laboratory (malondialdehyde) and histological (liver and carotid arteries) of spontaneously hypertensive rats prone to stroke (SHR-sp). Methods: we used 36 male...
La adrenomedulina (AM) es un péptido ubicuo de 52 residuos de aminoácidos que cumple funciones importantes en la regulación de la función cardiovascular (CDV). La AM ejerce sus acciones a través de su unión con tres subtipos de receptores, el receptor del péptido relacionado al gen de la calcitoni...
CONTEXT: Animal models for essential hypertension have been used for understanding the human pathological conditions observed in pregnant hypertensive women. OBJECTIVE: To study the possible effects of pregnancy on hypertension and of hypertension on pregnancy in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR), an...
