The implication of protein malnutrition on cardiovascular control systems in rats.
The malnutrition in early life is associated with metabolic changes and cardiovascular impairment in adult hood. Deficient protein intake-mediated hypertension has been observed in clinical and experimental studies. In rats, protein malnutrition also increases the blood pressure and enhances heart r...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2015 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (UFOP) |
| Repositorio: | Repositório Institucional da UFOP |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.ufop.br:123456789/6674 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://www.repositorio.ufop.br/handle/123456789/6674 https://dx.doi.org/10.3389%2Ffphys.2015.00246 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Protein malnutrition Neuroplasticity Cardiovascular reflexes Sympathetic activity Renin-angiotensin system |
| Sumario: | The malnutrition in early life is associated with metabolic changes and cardiovascular impairment in adult hood. Deficient protein intake-mediated hypertension has been observed in clinical and experimental studies. In rats, protein malnutrition also increases the blood pressure and enhances heart rate and sympathetic activity. In this review, we discuss the effects of post-weaning protein malnutrition on the resting mean arterial pressure and heartrate and their variabilities, cardiovascular reflexes sensitivity, cardiac autonomic balance, sympathetic and renin-angiotensin activities and neural plasticity during adult life. These insights reveal an interesting prospect on the autonomic modulation underlying the cardiovascular imbalance and provide relevant information preventing cardiovascular diseases. |
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