AGT and Hypertension: Consistent with other models of hypertension, such as SHR and rats infused with Ang II, we found insignificant differences in bacterial load between control and hypertensive DOCA-salt rats (fecal biomass DNA/fecal amount (ng/mg): 199.0 ± 22.8 and 227.8 ± 28.3, respectively, p > 0.05).