title: Diverse cardiovascular responses to aortic constriction in normotensive Sprague-Dawley versus spontaneously hypertensive rats.
abstract: Normotensive, Sprague-Dawley (S-D) and spontaneously hypertensive (SH) rats were subjected to aortic ligature. The systolic blood pressure of S-D rats was increased by +/- 80 mm Hg, whereas the blood pressure of SH rats with pre-existent hypertension increased only slightly, +/- 9 mm Hg. The S-D rats developed myocardial and renal infarcts as well as polyarteritis nodosa; the SH rats developed testicular and microadrenocortical infarcts only. Aortic-ligated S-D rats had elevated creatine phosphokinase, serum glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase, serum glutamic-pyruvic transaminase, and lactic hydrogenase levels and manifested hyperglycemia, hypercholesterolemia, and elevated blood urea nitrogen (BUN) levels. Corticosterone levels increased in aortic-ligated S-D rats but decreased in SH rats. Collateralization about the site of aortic ligature appeared to be the same in both strains. It is suggested that the acutely induced hypertension in S-D rats rather than SH rats and differences in adrenal steroidogenesis between the two strains would best account for the dichotomous cardiovascular response to aortic constriction.
mesh_terms: D000302:Adrenal Cortex / Q000098:blood supply; D000818:Animals; D001011:Aorta; D001774:Blood Chemical Analysis; D001835:Body Weight; D003250:Constriction; D006973:Hypertension / Q000150:complications* / Q000235:genetics; D007238:Infarction / Q000209:etiology*; D007668:Kidney / Q000098:blood supply; D008297:Male; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000209:etiology; D051381:Rats; D013737:Testis / Q000098:blood supply