Abstract:Despite that the association between hypertension and diabetes is common in clinical practice, the contribution of each isolated entity in the neuropathy development is still not known. The literature lacks a morphologic description of peripheral nerves in experimental models of hypertensive diabetic animals. The present study compared the sural nerve in Wistar rats (WR), WR with chronically induced diabetes, spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and SHR with chronically induced diabetes, using a morphological… Show more
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