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Characteristic cardiovascular responses to passive stretch in representative Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) and spontaneously hypertensive (SHR) rats. In response to passive hindlimb muscle stretch of the same tension, mean arterial blood pressure (MAP) and heart rate (HR) were consistently larger in hypertensive compared with normotensive animals.
