Example sentences for: salt-sensitive

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  • 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.

  • Studies were conducted using 40 male Dahl/Rapp salt-sensitive (SS/Jr, termed S) and 40 male Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats, initially 28 days of age, obtained from Harlan Sprague Dawley, Indianapolis, IN.

  • 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.

  • S, Dahl/Rapp salt-sensitive rat


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