Sympathetic Nerve Activity and Baroreflex are Strongly Altered in a Context of Severe Hypertension Using the Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat Model Associated with Chronic Reduction of Nitric Oxide

Table 3

Carotid sinus histological data.

Intima/media thickness		SHR, n = 5	SHRLN, n = 5
Internal carotid	Internal wall	48 ± 2	59 ± 6
	External wall	75 ± 3	73 ± 4
	Ratio i/e	0.66 ± 0.04	0.84 ± 0.02^#
External carotid	Internal wall	66 ± 1	64 ± 1
	External wall	46 ± 3	77 ± 2
	Ratio i/e	0.87 ± 0.03	0.83 ± 0.03

Unpaired Student’s t-test. . ^#SHRLN versus SHR.