Valsartan chronotherapy reverts the non-dipper pattern and improves blood pressure control through mediation of circadian rhythms of the renin-angiotensin system in spontaneous hypertension rats.
CONCLUSION: VSA may be more efficacious than VWA in controlling BP, circadian BP rhythm and blood RAS rhythm. Recent cardiovascular outcome investigations substantiate that chronotherapy treatment might be a novel therapeutic strategy for hypertension therapy.
ABBREVIATIONS: Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE); Angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs); Angiotensin II (ANG II); Analysis of variance (ANOVA); Angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs); Blood Pressure (BP); Calcium Antagonists Calcium Channel Blockers (CCB); Chronic kidney diseases (CKD); Sodium carboxyl methyl cellulose (CMC-Na); Cardiac mass index (CMI); Cardiovascular diseases (CVD); Diastolic blood pressure (DBP); Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA); Hematoxylin-eosin (H&E); Kidney mass index (KMI); Liver mass index (LMI); Mean arterial blood pressure (MAP); Plasma renin concentration (PRC); Renin-angiotensin system (RAS); Rennin (REN); Systolic blood pressure (SBP); Student-Newman-Keuls q test (SNK-q test); Spontaneous hypertension rats (SHR); Valsartan asleep Administration (VSA); Valsartan awake Administration (VWA); Wistar-Kyoto (WKY); Mesor (M); Amplitude (A); Phase (φ).
PMID: 31096810 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Chronobiology International - Category: Biology Authors: Yang K, Wang Y, Ding Y, Cui H, Zhou D, Chen L, Ma Z, Wang W, Zhang W, Luan J Tags: Chronobiol Int Source Type: research
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