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A previous study used RNase protection assay and Western blotting to demonstrate an increase in Fas expression in kidney cortex of hypertensive S rats.
While other animal models of hypertension can be employed to study the pathogenesis of hypertension, because of the rapid and reproducible development of renal failure, S rats provide a unique means to investigate the pathogenesis of hypertensive nephrosclerosis.
Recent evidence suggests that apoptosis is involved in several pathological processes in the lung [ 30 31 32 ] and kidney [ 33 34 35 36 37 ] . Using the Dahl/Rapp salt-sensitive (S) rat, which develops hypertensive nephrosclerosis that resembles the human disease process [ 5 ] , this laboratory demonstrated an early and inappropriate apoptotic process that occurred in both glomerular and tubular compartments of the kidneys and correlated with the decline in glomerular filtration rate.
In this respect, this model is very useful in understanding hypertensive nephrosclerosis that occurs in human low-renin hypertension, especially in defined, more homogeneous populations such as the black patients described by Grim and associates [ 6 ] .
Of patients hospitalized for atrial fibrillation, the most common secondary diagnosis was hypertensive heart disease (15%), followed by congestive heart failure (11%).