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Table 1 Body and liver tissue weights, blood pressure, and biochemical data in 6- and 25-week-old rats

From: Altered gene and protein expression in liver of the obese spontaneously hypertensive/NDmcr-cp rat

 

6 weeks of age

25 weeks of age

 

WKY

Lean

CP

WKY

Lean

CP

Body weight (g)

140.2 ± 1.1

147.5 ± 1.2

228.5 ± 1.3*†

422.8 ± 5.2

413.9 ± 4.1

578.4 ± 6.8*†

Liver weight (g)

7.2 ± 0.9

7.5 ± 0.6

12.5 ± 1.1*†

12.8 ± 1.2

13.9 ± 1.1

28.4 ± 2.8*†

Blood pressure (mmHg)

101.5 ± 1.2

179.5 ± 1.4*

173.3 ± 1.2*

108.7 ± 1.8

208.7 ± 2.1*

191.2 ± 4.0*

Triglyceride (mg/dl)

65.8 ± 7.7

65.2 ± 3.7

93.3 ± 13.1

62.8 ± 12.5

61.8 ± 5.5

816.3 ± 51.6*†

Non-fasting glucose (mg/dl)

178.4 ± 7.9

173.7 ± 7.6

189.2 ± 4.0

160.7 ± 5.9

186.2 ± 34.5

278.2 ± 26.7*†

  1. Data are mean ± SEM of six rats per group.
  2. *P < 0.05, compared with the corresponding value for WKY;
  3. † P < 0.05, compared with the corresponding value for Lean.
  4. WKY; Wistar Kyoto rats, Lean; spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR/lean), CP; SHR/NDmcr-cp (cp/cp).