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Ouabain in plasma from spontaneously hypertensive rats

P A Doris1

  • 1Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock 79430.

Summary

Spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) have higher levels of ouabain-like activity (OLA) in their plasma than Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKY). Increasing dietary calcium reduced OLA in SHR, but authentic ouabain did not account for the elevated OLA in SHR plasma.

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