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A mouse model of hypertension induced by sucrose

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The study was supported by a grant (HL174004) from National Institute of Health.

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  1. Cardiovascular Research Center, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Yuki Nakayama & Satoru Eguchi

  2. Department of Surgery and the Heart Institute, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA

    Yuki Nakayama, Kunie Eguchi, Katherine J. Elliott & Satoru Eguchi

  3. Department of Rehabilitation, Osaka Kawasaki Rehabilitation University, Osaka, Japan

    Hirotoshi Utsunomiya

  4. Departments of Neurosurgery and Neurobiology, Barrow Aneurysm and AVM Research Center, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ, USA

    Tomoki Hashimoto

  5. Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Patrick Osei-Owusu

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Nakayama, Y., Utsunomiya, H., Eguchi, K. et al. A mouse model of hypertension induced by sucrose. Hypertens Res 48, 2475–2477 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41440-025-02278-w

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