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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Jun 27.
Published in final edited form as: Life Sci. 2007 May 21;81(3):218–222. doi: 10.1016/j.lfs.2007.05.004

Table 2.

Blood pressures and genitourinary tissue weights of experimental animals

  WKY
SHR
  Untreated Untreated Doxazosin Nifedipine
Mean arterial pressure, mmHg 118 ± 3 175 ± 6a 138 ± 5a,b 132 ± 4a,b
Tissue weight, mg        
  Ventral prostate 402 ± 18 421 ± 26 392 ± 32 401 ± 17
  Dorsolateral prostate 287 ± 22 312 ± 39 322 ± 28 308 ± 24
  Urinary bladder 101 ± 10 121 ± 18 98 ± 21 113 ± 13
  Penis 280 ± 33 276 ± 31 300 ± 33 282 ± 26

SHRs were treated with doxazosin or nifedipine for 4 weeks. Each value represents the mean ± S.E.M. of the results from 10 rats.

a

Significantly different from comparable values for WKY rats

b

Significantly different from comparable values for untreated SHRs.