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Consomic strategies to localize genomic regions related to vascular reactivity in the Dahl salt-sensitive rat. Physiol Genomics 2006 Aug 16;26(3):218-25

Date

06/15/2006

Pubmed ID

16772359

DOI

10.1152/physiolgenomics.00004.2006

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-33747330104 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)   25 Citations

Abstract

Chromosomal substitution strains afford the opportunity to discover regions of the rat genome that contain genes related to cardiovascular traits with the long-range goal of linking these genes to physiological function. PhysGen (Programs for Genomic Applications) created a consomic panel of rats derived from the introgression of a single chromosome (> or =95% of the BN chromosome, one at a time) of the Brown Norway (BN/NHsdMcwi) rat onto the homogeneous genetic background of the Dahl salt-sensitive rat (SS/JrHsdMcwi). For 3 wk before the experiment, the rats were maintained on a low-salt diet (0.4% NaCl). The dose response of aortic rings from each strain of rat to phenylephrine, acetylcholine, sodium nitroprusside, and three different levels of tissue bath hypoxia (10, 5, and 0% O2) was measured and compared with the parental SS rat. To maximize the possibility that differences among the strains would become apparent, each strain of rat including the parental SS and BN was also studied after being maintained on a high-salt diet (4.0% NaCl) for 3 wk. If the response of the aortic ring from a consomic strain to these vasoactive substances was different from that of the SS parental strain, it was concluded that the introgressed chromosome contained a gene or genes that contributed to that difference. Because the BN chromosome is removed from its native background and the SS rat loses a native chromosome, it is also necessary to consider the contribution of changes in gene-to-gene interaction.

Author List

Kunert MP, Drenjancevic-Peric I, Dwinell MR, Lombard JH, Cowley AW Jr, Greene AS, Kwitek AE, Jacob HJ

Authors

Allen W. Cowley Jr PhD Professor in the Physiology department at Medical College of Wisconsin
Melinda R. Dwinell PhD Professor in the Physiology department at Medical College of Wisconsin
Anne E. Kwitek PhD Professor in the Physiology department at Medical College of Wisconsin

MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold

Acetylcholine
Animals
Aorta
Blood Pressure
Blood Vessels
Chromosome Mapping
Chromosomes, Mammalian
Diet, Sodium-Restricted
Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
Female
In Vitro Techniques
Male
Nitroprusside
Oxygen
Rats
Rats, Inbred BN
Rats, Inbred Dahl
Sodium Chloride, Dietary
Vasoconstriction