Estrogen Protects Against Increased Blood Pressure in Postpubertal Female Growth Restricted Offspring
Open Access
- 1 October 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Hypertension
- Vol. 50 (4), 679-685
- https://doi.org/10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.107.091785
Abstract
Placental insufficiency in the rat results in intrauterine growth restriction and development of hypertension in prepubertal male and female growth-restricted offspring. However, after puberty, only male growth-restricted offspring remain hypertensive, whereas female growth-restricted offspring stabilize their blood pressure to levels comparable to adult female controls. Because female rats reach their maximum levels of estrogen at puberty, we hypothesize that estrogen may be a factor involved in the stabilization of blood pressure in adult female growth-restricted offspring. At 10 weeks of age, female control and growth-restricted offspring underwent ovariectomy or sham surgery and insertion of a telemetry probe. Mean arterial pressure was similar at 16 weeks of age between control (123±4 mm Hg) and growth-restricted offspring (122±2 mm Hg); however, ovariectomy led to a significant increase in blood pressure in growth-restricted offspring (140±2 mm Hg; P P P <0.05 versus ovariectomized counterpart). Therefore, sex differences are observed in this model of fetal programmed hypertension, and results from this study suggest that estrogen contributes to normalization of blood pressure in adult female growth-restricted offspring.Keywords
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