Effects of captopril on cardiac and renal damage, and metabolic alterations in the nitric oxide-deficient hypertensive rat

MM Khattab, A Mostafa, O Al-Shabanah - Kidney and Blood Pressure …, 2005 - karger.com
Chronic inhibition of nitric oxide (NO) synthesis is characterized by increased blood
pressure accompanied with both cardiac hypertrophy as well as renal damage. We …

[HTML][HTML] Ultrastructure and histochemistry of rat myocardial capillary endothelial cells in response to diabetes and hypertension

L Okruhlicova, N Tribulova, P Weismann, R Sotnikova - Cell Research, 2005 - nature.com
Insufficient growth and rarefaction of capillaries, followed by endothelial dysfunction may
represent one of the most critical mechanisms involved in heart damage. In this study we …

Chronic N-acetylcysteine administration prevents development of hypertension in Nω-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester-treated rats: the role of reactive oxygen species

H Rauchová, O Pecháňová, J Kuneš… - Hypertension …, 2005 - nature.com
The aim of this study was to evaluate the production of superoxide anions as well as their
role in the induction and/or maintenance of high blood pressure in rats with N ω-nitro-L …

l‐Arginine fails to protect against myocardial remodelling in l‐NAME‐induced hypertension

F Simko, I Luptak, J Matuskova… - European journal of …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Background We investigated whether the substrate for nitric oxide synthesis l‐arginine is
able to modify hypertension and left ventricular hypertrophy development induced by …

Protein remodeling of the heart ventricles in hereditary hypertriglyceridemic rat: effect of ACE-inhibition

F Simko, V Pelouch, J Torok, I Luptak… - Journal of biomedical …, 2005 - Springer
The aim of this study was to determine whether protein remodeling of the heart ventricles
and remodeling of the aorta were present in hereditary hypertriglyceridemic (hHTG) rats and …