Dietary capsaicin-mediated attenuation of hypertension in a rat model of renovascular hypertension

Dietary capsaicin-mediated attenuation of hypertension in a rat model of renovascular hypertension

Background: Capsaicin, a pungent component of chili pepper, has been reported to decrease blood pressure (BP) and to cause vasorelaxation via nitric oxide (NO) production. However, it is still unclear how dietary capsaicin effects on renovascular hypertension. To examine this, we observed the effect...

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Main Authors: Yukiko Segawa, Hiroko Hashimoto, Saki Maruyama, Miki Shintani, Hitomi Ohno, Yuko Nakai, Tomoko Osera, Nobutaka Kurihara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2020-05-01
Series:Clinical and Experimental Hypertension
Subjects:
capsaicin
hypertension
2-kidney
1-clip renovascular hypertension (2k1c)
nitric oxide (no)
endothelial nitric oxide synthase (enos)
protein kinase b (akt)
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10641963.2019.1665676

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