Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: The spontaneously hypertensive stroke prone rat (SHRSP) is a model of insulin resistance and dyslipidemia. Feeding a 60% fructose diet exaggerates these phenotypes. The Y chromosome may influence lipid levels in the spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR). Therefore we aim to characterise the metabolic syndrome using in vivo and dyslipidemic phenotpyes in the SHRSP and examine the contribution of the Y chromosome.Methods: SHRSP and WKY Y consomic strains (SP...

Objective: To construct rat congenic strains to confirm and narrow down a region on rat chromosome 2 previously implicated in blood pressure regulation. To determine expression profiles and identify differentially expressed genes between congenic strain and respective parental strain using microarray technology.Design and Methods: Total RNA was prepared from whole kidney homogenates from 2x parental SHRSPGla and 2x SP.WKYGla2a congenic rats. Expression ...

Objective: The spontaneously hypertensive stroke prone rat (SHRSP) is a model of insulin resistance and dyslipidemia. Feeding a 60% fructose diet exaggerates these phenotypes. It has been suggested that the Y chromosome may influence lipid levels in the spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR). Therefore we examined the effects of Y chromosome on lipid phenotypes in the SHRSP after fructose feeding.Design and Methods: The S.W. Y consomic strain was construc...