The objective was to quantify and to describe microvascular endothelial cell death in glucocorticoid-induced hypertension. Microvascular rarefaction, which has been shown in human and animal hypertension, may result from increased endothelial cell apoptosis.
Department of Bioengineering, Whitaker Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0412, USA. gwss@bioeng.ucsd.edu
