“…These observations have been confirmed and amplified in a variety of disparate types of experimental hypertension. Thus, whether a clip is placed around the renal artery of a rat or dog (Ledingham & Pelling, 1967;Ferrario, 1974), whether the animal is salt-loaded after removal of part of the renal mass (Coleman & Guyton, 1969), whether the kidney is encased in a perinephric hull (Ferrario, Page & McCubbin, 1970), or whether the animal is genetically sodium-sensitive (Tobian, Ganguli & Dahl, 1974) or spontaneously hypertensive (Pfeffer & Frohlich, 1973a), the evidence corroborates the observations first made in man (Eich el al., 1962) that the hypertension in its earliest stages is associated with a faster heart rate, higher cardiac output and increased myocardial contractility.…”