Research Article
Influence of Age on Anticontractile Effect of Perivascular Adipose Tissue in Normotensive and Hypertensive Rats
Table 2
Characterization of adrenergic contractions in mesenteric arteries with perivascular adipose tissue removed (PVAT−) and intact (PVAT+), obtained from normotensive Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats and spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) at 5th and 12th week of life.
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NA: noradrenaline; TES: transmural electrical stimulation; pEC50: negative logarithm of half maximal effective noradrenaline concentration; AUC: area under curve. Values represent mean ± SEM of 10 rats. and PVAT+ vs. PVAT− in the respective experimental group of rats. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||