Research Article

Chronic NO Restriction in Hypertensive Rats Increases Abdominal but Not Thoracic Aortic Intrinsic Stiffness via an Augmentation in Profibrotic Materials

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(a) time-evolution of systolic blood pressure (SBP, triangles), diastolic blood pressure (DBP, circles), and pulse pressure (PP, squares) in spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR, grey symbols, and n=8) and in SHR during 5-week L-NAME treatment (SHRLN, black symbols, and n=9) and (b) short-term blood pressure variability as ARV (average real variability) are shown with similar symbols. : p<0.05 one way ANOVA and Dunnett’s posttest on time effect.
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