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The Influence Of Dietary Intake On Hypertension And/Or Erythrocyte Na+, K+- Atpase Activity, Gloria A. Gaskin

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Normotensive (11) and medicated hypertensive (6) female subjects ages 23 to 58 participated in blood pressure measurements, blood sampling (2 days) following a 10-hour fast, for the determination of maximum ouabain binding, and dietary assessment using 7-day records and/or food frequency forms. Maximum ouabain binding, an index of Na⁺,K⁺-ATPase activity, was measured using a tritiated ouabain binding technique in which the number of ouabain binding sites per cell are determined. The number of enzyme units (Na⁺,K⁺-ATPase units) was calculated from the number of binding sites per cell because the two are directly …