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Citation Information: J Clin Invest. 1972;51(3):710-714. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI106860.
Abstract
During the study of an inbred strain of Wistar rats which spontaneously develop hypertension when they reach a weight of approximately 150 g, it was found that these animals also develop an erythrocytosis. A significant increase in red cell count was observed in spontaneously hypertensive (SH) rats (8-11 × 106 RBC/mm3) when compared with normotensive rats (6-7 × 106 RBC/mm3) of the same strain. This increase in red cell count paralleled the increase in body weight and the rise in blood pressure.
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Subha Sen, George C. Hoffman, Nicholas T. Stowe, Robert R. Smeby, F. Merlin Bumpus
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