Stroke-prone renovascular hypertensive rats

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Purpose To summarized the methods for establishment, characteristics of vascular lesions in brain and heart and thc application of stroke-pronc renovascular hypertensive rats (RHRSP). Background Spontaneously hypcrtensivc rats (STR) and subtypes of SH R, especially stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRSP) are considered as most important animal models at present for the studies of hypertension and its complications in heart and brain, evcn SHRSP arc considered as thc unique animal model in which prcvention of stroke can be studied cxperimentally Howcver, the applications of SHR and SHRSP are limited because of the effects of genetic deficits and thc difficulties with breeding Theretore, most of the researches on experimental stroke have been performed on the animal models with normotcnsion and normal structure of cerebral vessels. In fact, there are great differences in structure of cerebrovesscls, autoregulation of cerebral blood flow and extent of lesions in brain tissue, even the reaction to the medication after ischemia between the animals with extcnsive arteriosclerosis and with normal cerebral blood vessels. Obviously, thc relevancc of experimental stroke on normal animals to the stroke on cerebral arteriosclerotic patients clinically remains dubious. Data sources and methods Most published original articles about RHRSP in our laboratory were reviewed Results After the renal arteries were constricted bilaterally with ring-shape silver clips, the stroke-prone rcnovascular hypertensive rats were established. Hypertension was produced in all RHRSP(100%).The peak of blood pressure in RHRSP reached 29.1 ±3.0kPa. The lesions of cerebral arteries and arterioles and the damage of cerebral capillary structure by hypertension were observed in the RHRSP. The incidence of spontaneous stroke was 56.4% with in 40 weeks after the renal artery constriction. Left ventricular hypertrophy and small coronary arterial lesions in myocardium were discovered in all RHRSP. Myocardial infarction occurred spontaneously in 41.8% of RHRSP. The animal models have been used for the studies on mechanisms of stroke and myocardial infarction. Futhermore, RHlRSP with cercbrovascular basal pathological changes can be induced as cerebral thrombosis by thc photochemical method, which is quite similar to that of human being in evolution. Therefore. RHRSP with photochemical cerebral thrombosis can be used to appraised therapeutic effects of medication more objectively Conclusions Because the vascular lesions in cerebrum and heart in RHRSP are similar to that in human beings with hypertension, RHRSP can be used in the studies on mechanisms of hypertensive arterioscle-rotic stroke and cardiac lesions and on verifying the effects of different medications to complications of hypertension, and thc results might be more reliable than that in animal models without hypertension.

机标关键词：animal models、myocardial infarction、renovascular hypertensive rats、ventricular hypertrophy、photochemical method、cerebral blood flow、normal structure、blood pressure、blood vessels、renal artery、human beings、methods for、used in

所属期刊栏目：8

分类号：R96;R74

在线出版日期：2005-07-07（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）

页数：共1页

页码：76