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Table 5 Kidney gene expression of the rats in the absence of salt-loading

From: Dietary phytosterols and phytostanols decrease cholesterol levels but increase blood pressure in WKY inbred rats in the absence of salt-loading

 

Control diet (n = 10)

Phytosterol diet (n = 10)

Phytostanol diet (n = 10)

P value (one-way ANOVA)

Angiotensinogen

1.00 ± 0.12a

1.20 ± 0.28b

0.95 ± 0.17a

0.0339

Renin

1.00 ± 0.17

1.05 ± 0.17

1.17 ± 0.37

0.3597

Angiotensin I converting enzyme (Ace) 1

1.00 ± 0.13

1.05 ± 0.08

1.11 ± 0.34

0.5948

Ace 2

1.00 ± 0.15

1.03 ± 0.22

0.99 ± 0.21

0.8884

Angiotensin II receptor (Agtr) 1a

1.00 ± 0.08

0.94 ± 0.11

0.93 ± 0.10

0.3131

Nitric oxide synthase (Nos) 1

1.00 ± 0.36

0.84 ± 0.20

1.04 ± 0.29

0.3170

Nos 3

1.00 ± 0.11

1.00 ± 0.21

1.07 ± 0.21

0.6882

Cyclooxygenase 2

1.00 ± 0.26

1.09 ± 0.31

1.09 ± 0.34

0.7696

Spondin 1

1.00 ± 0.07

1.10 ± 0.17

1.01 ± 0.10

0.1988

THUMP domain 1

1.00 ± 0.16

0.93 ± 0.20

1.10 ± 0.23

0.2103

  1. Values are presented as means ± SD.
  2. a,b means in a row not sharing a superscript letter are significantly different (P < 0.05, Duncan's test).
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