Vascular Dilation Responses of Rat Small Mesenteric Arteries at High Intravascular Pressure i

Background: Hypertension is associated with remodeling and mechanical alterations of resistance arteries. Numerous studies have investigated the mechanical and morphometric properties of small arteries obtained from hypertensive animals and humans. However, the functional properties of resistance arteries from normotensive and hypertensive subjects have only been examined under normote..