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Hypertension induced by methyl mercury in rats

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Abstract

Rats were treated with an acute dose of methylmercury chloride (5 mg/kg body wt/day) or with a chronical dose (0.5 mg/kg body wt/day). Measurements of systolic blood pressure by the tail-cuff method revealed that a long-lasting increase in SBP occurs in the chronically treated rats.

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