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

Table 1

Body weight, urine volume, and the intake of feed, fluids and minerals during the 24-hour period in metabolic cages at the end of the three-week treatment period (mean ± SE, 𝑛=6-9).

Variable	Control	Fermented milk	Peptide	Difference between the groups, 𝑃
Body weight, g	235 ± 13	221 ± 11	239 ± 7	.53
Urine volume, mL	33 ± 3	33 ± 4	44 ± 4	.085
Feed intake, g	26 ± 1	16 ± 1	26 ± 0.5	<.001
Fluid intake, mL	37 ± 4	24 ± 8	47 ± 4	.032
Energy, kJ	352 ± 15	285 ± 27	353 ± 7	.014
Sodium, mg	59 ±2	44 ± 3	60 ± 1	<.001
Potassium, mg	175 ± 7	188 ± 28	175 ± 3	.76
Calcium, mg	260 ± 11	213 ± 21	261 ± 5	.025
Magnesium, mg	51 ± 2	36 ± 2	52 ± 1	<.001