Abstract
Conclusions
1. Desoxycorticosterone acetate (DCA) and sodium choloride, in amounts sufficient to cause hypetension do not interfere with conception, implantation or normal delivery in rats. 2. When pregnancy in superimposed upon DCA-sodium hypertension, the blood pressure and fluid balance are not affected. There may be a transient increase of proteinuria during the last third of pregnancy. 3. The failure of the elevated blood pressure to fall during late pregnancy, as it regularly does in experimenta renal hypertension, suggests a differece in the chemical mediation of the 2 types of hypertension.
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