Milk Products Containing Bioactive Tripeptides Have an Antihypertensive Effect in Double Transgenic Rats (dTGR) Harbouring Human Renin and Human Angiotensinogen Genes : Table 2

]>Milk Products Containing Bioactive Tripeptides Have an Antihypertensive Effect in Double Transgenic Rats (dTGR) Harbouring Human Renin and Human Angiotensinogen Genes : Table 2

Table 2: Biochemical variables and cardiac and renal hypertrophies at the end of the three-week treatment period (mean SE, ).


Variable	Control	Fermented milk	Peptide	Difference between the groups,

Urinary albumin, mg/d	22 4	35 8	30 4	.20
PRA, ng Ang I/mL/h	90 17	99 30	95 19	.98
BNP, pmol/L	3.1 0.5	2.3 0.2	3.5 0.3	.24
Aldosterone, pg/mL	1228 302	2551 921	1494 218	.18
Cardiac hypertrophy index (mg/g)	5.3 0	5.1 0	5.1 0	.59
Renal hypertrophy index (mg/g)	4.6 0	4.8 0	4.8 0	.61