The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry
Volume 21, Issue 1 , Pages 14-22, January 2010

Dietary enrichment with wild blueberries (Vaccinium angustifolium) affects the vascular reactivity in the aorta of young spontaneously hypertensive rats☆

  • Anastasia Z. Kalea

      Affiliations

    • Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, USA
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  • Kateryna Clark

      Affiliations

    • Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, USA
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  • Dale A. Schuschke

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology and Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292, USA
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  • Aleksandra S. Kristo

      Affiliations

    • Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, USA
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  • Dorothy J. Klimis-Zacas

      Affiliations

    • Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, College of Natural Sciences, Forestry and Agriculture, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, USA. Tel.: +1 207 581 3124; fax: +1 207 581 1636.

Received 10 June 2008; received in revised form 22 September 2008; accepted 23 September 2008. published online 21 January 2009.

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☆ This work was supported in part by a grant from the Wild Blueberry Commission of Maine, the Wild blueberry Association of North America, the USDA/CSREES, and the Regular Research Faculty Fund of the University of Maine to Dr. Dorothy Klimis-Zacas (Maine Agriculture and Forestry Experiment Station, Scientific Contribution, #2980).

PII: S0955-2863(08)00214-3

doi:10.1016/j.jnutbio.2008.09.005

The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry
Volume 21, Issue 1 , Pages 14-22, January 2010

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