Maintenance of maternal diet-induced hypertension in the rat is dependent on glucocorticoids
Maintenance of maternal diet-induced hypertension in the rat is dependent on glucocorticoids
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DOI:
10.1161/01.hyp.30.6.1525
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发表时间:
1997-12-01
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影响因子:
8.3
通讯作者:
Langley-Evans, SC
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作者:
Gardner, DS;Jackson, AA;Langley-Evans, SC
Recent epidemiological evidence suggests that adult cardiovascular risk is determined by birth weight and factors that influence birth weight, such as maternal nutrition. Data from animal models suggest that an interaction between nutrition and glucocorticoid hormones "programs" increased risk of adult hypertension. Increased fetal exposure to maternal glucocorticoids that is proposed to occur from a reduction in the placental barrier to maternal glucocorticoid, 11 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase, is suggested to program hypertension in the resultant offspring from both glucocorticoid-treated and maternally protein-restricted rats. The extent to which postnatal glucocorticoid stimulation may influence the progression of hypertension in the offspring from protein-restricted rat darns was assessed in 6-week-old male Wistar rats, prenatally exposed to either an 18% casein (control) or 9% casein (low protein) diet. Rats from each dietary group were sham operated, adrenalectomized or adrenalectomized, and treated with 20 mg corticosterone/kg body weight per day. Before surgery, systolic blood pressure was significantly higher in the low protein-exposed rats compared with controls (165+/-3.8 versus 142+/-3.3 mm Hg, P