Prenatal programming of adult hypertension in the rat
Kidney InternationalPublished 1 January 2001Open access
V. Matti Vehaskari, Diego Avilés, Jennifer Manning
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Adult blood pressure profile is susceptible to prenatal programming by maternal low-protein diet in the rat and may involve an altered renin-aldosterone axis and a deficit in total nephron number.
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Adult blood pressure profile is susceptible to prenatal programming by maternal low-protein diet in the rat. The mechanism may involve an altered renin-aldosterone axis and a deficit in total nephron number.
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