AUTHOR=Pereira Emilson Donizete , Zenatti Aline Aparecida , Menani José Vanderlei , De Luca Laurival Antonio , Andrade Carina A. F. 

TITLE=Inhibition of salty taste and sodium appetite by estrogens in spontaneously hypertensive rats

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Physiology

VOLUME=Volume 14 - 2023

YEAR=2023

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physiology/articles/10.3389/fphys.2023.1163568

DOI=10.3389/fphys.2023.1163568

ISSN=1664-042X

ABSTRACT=Estrogens have a well-known effect to reduce salt intake in rats. Few studies have focused on the role of sex hormones such as estradiol in sodium palatability in normotensive and hypertensive humans and animals. This mini review focuses on recent findings about estradiol interaction with brain angiotensin II to control sodium palatability that results from sodium appetite in spontaneously hypertensive rats.