Carotid body volumes of spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) growing up in hypobaric hypoxia.
Chronically hypoxic spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) developed 4-5 times bigger carotid bodies in relation to age-matched normoxic control SHR. When compared with the effects of chronic hypoxic hypoxia the influences of different levels of the systemic arterial blood pressure on carotid body volume were rather small. The data indicate that the carotid bodies of young SHR react to chronic arterial hypoxia in the same way as the glomera carotici of normotensive Wistar rats.
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D000531:Altitude; D000818:Animals; D001274:Atmospheric Pressure; D001794:Blood Pressure; D002344:Carotid Body / Q000473:pathology*; D006973:Hypertension / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D009929:Organ Size; D051381:Rats; D011918:Rats, Inbred SHR; D012016:Reference Values