Advances in Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Research Article

Testosterone Increases: Sodium Reabsorption, Blood Pressure, and Renal Pathology in Female Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats on a High Sodium Diet

Figure 1

Systolic blood pressure of female SHR by treatment and time (means ± SEM). Two-way repeated measures ANOVA: treatment- 𝐹 = 1 9 . 6 , 𝑑 𝑓 = 3 , 𝑃 < . 0 0 1 , age- 𝐹 = 1 4 . 7 , 𝑑 𝑓 = 9 , 𝑃 < . 0 0 1 , interaction- 𝐹 = 2 . 3 , 𝑑 𝑓 = 2 7 , 𝑃 < . 0 0 1 . Solid circles: controls ( 𝑛 = 8 ), solid triangles: ovarectomy-OVX ( 𝑛 = 6 ), open circles: testosterone treated-T ( 𝑛 = 6 ), open triangles: ovarectomy and testosterone treatment-OVX+T ( 𝑛 = 7 ).
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