Elevated blood pressure in high-fat diet-exposed low birthweight rat offspring is most likely caused by elevated glucocorticoid levels due to abnormal pituitary negative feedback

• Takahiro Nemoto ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: taknemo@nms.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Bioregulatory Science (Physiology), Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0100-8763

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• Takashi Nakakura,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Graduate School of Medicine, Teikyo University, Tokyo, Japan

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• Yoshihiko Kakinuma

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Bioregulatory Science (Physiology), Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan

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