Discussion DR. SUZANNE OPARIL (Profrssor of Medicine and Associate Professor of
Physiology and Biophysics, and Director, Hyper-tension Research Program, The University …

'Prehypertensive stage'was originally used to designate the initial developmental stage of
hypertension in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR). The period covered the first 6–7 …

Neurogenic factors and, in particular, enhanced renal sympathetic tone, have been
implicated in the pathogenesis of hypertension in the spontaneously hypertensive rat of the …

Sex steroid hormones and catecholamines have physiological interactions in the brain. By
the combined use of autoradiography and fluorescence histochemistry, steroid hormone …

Acetylcholine (ACh) plays a major role in central autonomic regulation, including the control
of arterial blood pressure (AP). Previously unknown neuroanatomic substrates of cholinergic …

This work is based on the premise that hypertension in the spontaneously hypertensive rat
(SHR) is a consequence of an imbalance in autonomic cardiovascular control …

Immunocytochemical studies showed distinctive monoamine input to the bed nucleus of the
stria terminalis (BST). A comparison of axons immunoreactive (IR) for a catecholamine …

The genetic basis of hyperactivity of the sympathetic nervous system (SNA) in
spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) was assessed by measuring SNA in animals …

The degree of analgesia in male spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and normotensive
controls of the Wistar-Kyoto and Sprague-Dawley strains was measured by the latency time …

The distribution of phenylethanolamine N-methlytransferase-immunoreactive nerve cell
bodies was investigated in the rat medulla using an antiserum to bovine …