Dietary Mushrooms Reduce Blood Pressure in Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHR)

The blood pressure of spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) were significantly reduced by Maitake feeding for 8 weeks period beginning at a time when the animals were 10 weeks of age with well-established high blood pressure. There was no difference in the plasma total and free cholesterol, triglyce...

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Published inJournal of Nutritional Science and Vitaminology Vol. 35; no. 1; pp. 91 - 94
Main Authors KABIR, Yearul, KIMURA, Shuichi
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Japan Center for Academic Publications Japan 1989
Subjects
Animals
Basidiomycota
blood pressure
Blood Pressure - drug effects
Body Weight - drug effects
Cholesterol - blood
Diet
Maitake
Male
mushroom
Organ Size - drug effects
Phospholipids - blood
Rats
Rats, Inbred SHR
Shiitake
spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR)
Triglycerides - blood
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ISSN0301-4800
1881-7742
DOI10.3177/jnsv.35.91

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Summary:The blood pressure of spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) were significantly reduced by Maitake feeding for 8 weeks period beginning at a time when the animals were 10 weeks of age with well-established high blood pressure. There was no difference in the plasma total and free cholesterol, triglyceride and phospholipid levels between the Maitake fed animals and the control, On the other hand, Shiitake mushroom did not reduce the blood pressure, but significantly lower the plasma free cholesterol, triglyceride and phospholipid in compared with the control. The results suggest that dietary Maitake mushroom reduce the blood pressure.
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ISSN:0301-4800
1881-7742
DOI:10.3177/jnsv.35.91