Table 5.

Comparisons of intimal lesions in the superior mesenteric arteries from different rat strains

Group	Number of lesions	No. of Cells	Lesion width (µm)
SHR (5)	2.10 ± 0.60	2.65 ± 0.50	25.8 ± 6.7
WKY (4)	0.38 ± 0.24	0.63 ± 0.38	12.2 ± 8.2
DSS (12)	1.50 ± 0.27	1.91 ± 0.46	34.7 ± 7.8
DSR (12)	0.75 ± 0.24	1.38 ± 0.38	16.9 ± 5.1
DOC-H (6)	2.25 ± 0.82	1.87 ± 0.43	25.8 ± 5.6
DOC-N (4)	1.75 ± 0.75	1.75 ± 0.25	25.4 ± 6.9
Wistar (5)	1.20 ± 0.40	1.46 ± 0.54	28.4 ± 8.4

Numbers in brackets signify n value (number of animals) for each group. Age of the rats was 28 weeks for SHR and WKY, 11–12 weeks for DSS and DSR, and approximately 15 weeks for DOC-H, DOC-N and Wistar rats.