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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hypertension. 2012 Sep 4;60(4):1006–1015. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.112.199661

Figure 6.

Figure 6

Pregabalin reverses elevated depolarization-induced vasoconstriction in hypertension. A, Representative traces illustrating diameter responses to increasing extracellular K+. B, Pregabalin (24 h, 100 μmol/L) reduced depolarization (20, 40, and 60 mmol/L K+)-induced vasoconstriction more so in arteries from hypertensive rats than controls. Mean data (n: WKY, 6; WKY + pregabalin, 6; SHR, 6; SHR + pregabalin, 6). * indicates P<0.05 when compared with untreated WKY, and # indicates P<0.05 for SHR + pregabalin when compared with untreated SHR.