Table 1.

Physiological characteristics of 18-wk-old WKY and SHRSP and 5-wk-old SHRSP animals

	WKY18	SHRSP18	SHRSP5
n	8	8	8
Body weight, g	209 ± 4	198 ± 3	91 ± 2*†
Arterial blood pressure, mmHg
Systolic	119 ± 3	161 ± 7*‡	127 ± 5
Diastolic	82 ± 3	122 ± 7*‡	86 ± 7
Mean	94 ± 3	135 ± 7*‡	100 ± 6

Values are means ± SE; n, no. of animals. WKY18, 18-wk-old Wistar-Kyoto rats; SHRSP18 and SHRSP5, 18- and 5-wk-old spontaneously hypertensive stroke prone rats, respectively.

^*P < 0.01 vs. WKY18;

^†P < 0.01 vs. SHRSP18; and

^‡P < 0.01 vs. SHRSP5 by one-way ANOVA.