Angiotensin II or epinephrine hemodynamic and metabolic responses in the liver of L-NAME induced hypertension and spontaneous hypertensive rats

Table 2 Glucose release induced by angiotensinII or epinephrine

	Glucose released μmol/min.g liver
Group	Angiotensin II	n	Epinephrine	n
WIS	11.3 ± 0.9	7	7.5 ± 0.9	10
L-NAME	11.2 ± 1.5	7	4.2 ± 0.4d	8
WKY	16.4 ± 1.5	7	8.0 ± 0.9	8
SHR	5.42 ± 0.6b	10	5.9 ± 0.7	6

The amount of glucose (area under the curve) was calculated from the curve glucose release increase vs time after agonist injection. Student’s t-test;

^bP < 0.0001 and

^dP = 0.002 compared with respective control (L-NAME vs WIS and SHR vs WKY). WIS: Similar to normal rats; SHR: Spontaneously hypertensive rat; WKY: Wistar Kyoto.