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In particular, peripheral alpha-1 antagonists are associated with an increase in plasma norepinephrine in diverse patient populations, as summarized in Table 3. This table reflects increases in norepinephrine in normotensive patients, hypertensive patients, and patients with chronic congestive heart failure from a variety of these small studies.
Recent studies have shown that apoptosis was accentuated in kidneys of S rats during development of nephrosclerosis [ 7 ] . These studies demonstrated increased numbers of TUNEL-positive cells, increased cytoplasmic nucleosome content and caspase-3 activation in kidneys of hypertensive S rats, compared to normotensive Sprague-Dawley control rats on the same high-salt diet.
The inbred Dahl/Rapp rat is a genetic model of salt-sensitive hypertension [ 3 4 ] . On a diet containing 8.0% NaCl, young Dahl/Rapp salt-sensitive (S) rats rapidly and uniformly manifest low-renin hypertension and die from hypertensive nephrosclerosis within weeks of institution of the high-salt diet [ 5 ] . The pathology is identical to human hypertensive renal disease and consists of arteriolosclerosis, glomerulosclerosis, and interstitial scarring with tubular cell dropout.
Arterial blood gases and current and past vital signs should be checked to establish whether cerebral hypoxemia or hypertensive encephalopathy is present.
These data, along with the previous studies that confirmed morphological evidence of apoptosis and biochemical evidence of caspase-3 activation in these kidneys [ 7 ] , showed a role for the Fas/FasL pathway in promoting the loss of kidney function that develops in the setting of hypertensive nephrosclerosis in this model.
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