New Therapeutic Insight into the Effect of Ma Huang Tang on Blood Pressure and Renal Dysfunction in the L-NAME-Induced Hypertension

Table 2

Effect of MHT on the body weight, water intake, urine volume, and osmolality in urine of L-NAME-induced hypertension rats.

	Cont.	L-NAME	OMT 10 (mg/kg/day)	MHT 50 (mg/kg/day)	MHT 100 (mg/kg/day)
Water intake (ml/day)	22.4 ± 1.3	20.9 ± 4.4	25.3 ± 3.9	18.06 ± 9.4	23.7 ± 5.0
Urine volume (g/23 h)	32.9 ± 1.0	42.4 ± 5.9	32.9 ± 2.5	32.2 ± 0.4	35.7 ± 2.2
Osmolality (mOsm/kg H2O)	2262.7 ± 110	795 ± 79.9	1932.6 ± 82.3^###	1510.5 ± 19.5^##	1720.8 ± 94.6^###
Albumin (g/dl)	0.473 ± 0.01	0.60 ± 0.05	0.56 ± 0.06	0.433 ± 0.07^#	0.269 ± 0.02^###

Water intake and urine samples were acquired for 1 day at last week of experiment. Cont.: control; MHT: Ma Huang Tang; and OMT: Olmetec. The data of values shows mean ±  S.E.(n = 4 per group). ; versus control; ^#, ^##, and ^### versus L-NAME.