A Clinician’s Perspective of Renal Sympathetic Nerve Contribution to Hypertension

The renal sympathetic nerves have a significant contribution to the control of different aspects of kidney function and blood pressure. Early animal studies of renal denervation (RDN) in a large number of different models of hypertension showed that RDN improved blood pressure (BP) control. Recently...

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Main Authors: Alexandros eBriasoulis, George Louis Bakris
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Physiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fphys.2015.00075/full