title: Genetic control of the spontaneous hypertension in the NZB/Cr strain of mice. Immunogenetic considerations.
abstract: NZB/Cr mice spontaneously develop a high blood pressure. This hypertension is developed during the first two months of age. F1-hybrids between NZB/Cr and C57/B1/6J (a normotensive mouse strain which does not spontaneously develop hypertension) also develop a high blood pressure, showing that the phenomenon is inherited as a dominant trait. The gene(s) responsive for the phenotypic high blood pressure is localised outside the MHC of the mouse (the H-2 complex). However, H-2 typing of backcrosses and F2-hybrids gave a weak evidence that genes located in or closely linked to the H-2 complex do influence the spontaneously developed high blood pressure in the NZB/Cr strain of mice. It is emphasized that further studies in larger populations of mice is necessary to establish the importance of linkage of genes to the H-2 comlex for the spontaneous hypertension in the NZB/Cr strain of mice.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003433:Crosses, Genetic; D005799:Genes, Dominant; D008040:Genetic Linkage; D006183:H-2 Antigens; D006824:Hybridization, Genetic; D006973:Hypertension / Q000235:genetics* / Q000276:immunology; D008285:Major Histocompatibility Complex; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D008814:Mice, Inbred NZB
chemical_list: D006183:H-2 Antigens