because kidney microangiopathy with capillary basement membrane thickening has been reported in spontaneous hypertension , we have studied the activities of three lysosomal glycosidases able to degrade the carbohydrate moieties of basement membrane constituents in the kidney cortex of 12-week-old spontaneously hypertensive rats ( shr ) and age-matched normotensive wistar kyoto rats ( wky ) .
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