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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hypertension. 2015 Nov 30;67(1):197–205. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.115.05838

Table 3.

Basal renal characteristics of sham-operated and heart failure rats

Measures Sham (n = 5) CHF (n = 5) Sham-aprotinin (n = 5) CHF-aprotinin (n = 7)
Kidney weight (g) 1.3 ± 0.2 1.9 ± 0.2* 1.3 ± 0.1 1.9 ± 0.3*
Urine flow (μl/min/gkw) 2.2± 0.3 2.3 ± 0.2 2.5 ± 0.4 2.7 ± 0.3
Na+ excretion (μEq/min/gkw) 0.14 ± 0.04 0.14 ± 0.01 0.17 ± 0.03 0.21 ± 0.03#
*

P < 0.05 vs. respective sham-operated rats

#

P < 0.05 vs. respective group without aprotinin treatment