Abstract
Summary
Renal hypertensive rats were found to have a pressor response to angiotensin which exceeded that of normal rats in both magnitude and duration. The results would appear to be in keeping with an intrinsic increase in pressor reactivity of the hypertensive organism, but are not compatible with the production of a specific angiotensinase as an adaptive mechanism to prevent chronic angiotensinemia.
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