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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 270: H981-H987, 1996;
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AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Vol 270, Issue 3 981-H987, Copyright © 1996 by American Physiological Society

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A new technique for study of impact of arterial elasticity on left ventricular mass in rats

F. Amin, N. Niederhoffer, R. Tatchum-Talom, T. Makki, J. Guillou, P. Tankosic and J. Atkinson
Laboratoire de Pharmacologie Cardio-vasculaire, Faculte de Pharmacie, Universite Henri Poincare Nancy, France.

We investigated possible links between left ventricular mass and central arterial elasticity in the adult spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) and in a subgroup of SHR in which blood pressure was normalized by chronic antihypertensive drug treatment; results were compared with those of age-matched normotensive Wistar-Kyoto rats. Two indexes of arterial elasticity, based on the measurement of aortic pressure pulse wave velocity, were used. First, the slope relating carotidofemoral pulse wave velocity to blood pressure in the phenylephrine-infused pithed preparation was used as a pressure-independent index of wall elasticity. Second, to account for hypertension- and treatment-induced aortic remodeling, elastic modulus was determined from the pulse wave velocity recorded when blood pressure reached that measured in awake animals before anesthesia and pithing, together with values for wall thickness and lumen diameter evaluated by histomorphometric analysis after in situ fixation at the same pressure. In control SHR, regression analysis of variance revealed significant correlations between left ventricular mass and both wave velocity/pressure slope and elastic modulus. Chronic antihypertensive treatment normalized all three parameters. In conclusion, this new technique provides experimental evidence of a link between left ventricular mass and central arterial elasticity.


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