Figure 1.

NaBu attenuated hypertension and cardiac hypertrophy induced by Ang II. SD rats were infused with vehicle or Ang II (200 ng/kg/min) and orally administrated with or without NaBu (1 g/kg/d) for 2 wk. A, Ten‐day mean arterial pressure. B, Ten‐day systolic blood pressure. C, Ten‐day diastolic blood pressure. D, Ten‐day heart rate. B, Ratio of heart weight/body weight (BW). C, Representative photomicrographs showing cross‐sectional area of cardiac myocytes stained by PAS (upper panel, scale bar: 20 µm); relative fold change of cell surface areas measurements (lower panel). * P < .05 or **P < .01 vs all other groups. N = 6 per group