scholarly journals Comparison of the pharmacological and sequence methods for assessing baroreflex control blood pressure via heart rate and renal sympathetic nerve activity

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (S1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah‐Jane Guild ◽  
Camelia Ling Ling Soo ◽  
Geoffery A Head ◽  
Simon C Malpas ◽  
Carolyn J Barrett
Hypertension ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 78 (5) ◽  
pp. 1450-1462
Author(s):  
Yiling Cao ◽  
Yang Yu ◽  
Baojian Xue ◽  
Ye Wang ◽  
Xiaolei Chen ◽  
...  

IL (Interleukin)-17A is a key inflammatory mediator contributing to chronic tissue inflammation. The present study sought to determine whether IL-17A plays a role in regulating neuroinflammation, hemodynamics, and sympathetic outflow in normal and hypertensive animals. In urethane-anesthetized rats, intravenous injection of IL-17A induced dramatic and prolonged increases in blood pressure, heart rate, and renal sympathetic nerve activity, which were significantly attenuated by an IL-17RA (IL-17 receptor A) siRNA in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN). Either intracerebroventricular or PVN microinjection of IL-17A also elicited a similar excitatory response in blood pressure, heart rate, and renal sympathetic nerve activity. Intravenous injection of IL-17A upregulated the mRNA level of IL-17A, IL-17F, and IL-17RA in the PVN. Additionally, intravenous injection of IL-17A activated brain-resident glial cells and elevated the gene expression of inflammatory cytokines and chemokines in the PVN, which were markedly diminished by PVN microinjection of IL-17RA siRNA. Pretreatments with microglia or astrocyte inhibitors attenuated the increase in blood pressure, heart rate, and renal sympathetic nerve activity in response to PVN IL-17A. Moreover, intracerebroventricular injection of IL-17A activated TGF (transforming growth factor)-β activated kinase 1, p44/42 mitogen-activated protein kinase, and transcriptional nuclear factor κB in the PVN. IL-17A interacted with tumor necrosis factor-α or IL-1β synergistically to exaggerate its influence on hemodynamic and sympathetic responses. Central intervention suppressing IL-17RA in the PVN significantly reduced angiotensin II–induced hypertension, neuroinflammation, and sympathetic tone in the rats. Collectively, these data indicated that IL-17A in the brain promotes neuroinflammation to advance sympathetic activation and hypertension, probably by a synergistic mechanism involving the interaction with various inflammatory mediators within the brain.


2011 ◽  
Vol 96 (8) ◽  
pp. 736-744 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsea C. Booth ◽  
Alistair J. Gunn ◽  
Simon C. Malpas ◽  
Carolyn J. Barrett ◽  
Joanne O. Davidson ◽  
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1992 ◽  
Vol 262 (5) ◽  
pp. H1441-H1448 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. S. Huang ◽  
F. H. Leenen

Heart rate (HR) and renal sympathetic nerve activity (RSNA) responses to ramp changes in blood pressure (BP) by (de)pressor agents and to acute volume expansion were recorded in conscious young, mature, and old Wistar rats maintained for 4 wk on diets containing low, control, or high dietary Na. Both HR and RSNA responses to BP increases or decreases were attenuated on low-Na diet compared with control Na diet. On high-Na diet, HR responses to BP changes and RSNA responses to BP increases were also attenuated, but in contrast the excitatory response of RSNA to BP decreases was augmented. The inhibitory RSNA response, but not the HR response, to volume expansion was significantly attenuated in young rats on high-Na diet but not on low-Na diet. The effects of both low and high dietary Na on HR and RSNA responses were most marked in young rats, less in mature rats, and even less in old rats. These results indicate a discordance of high dietary Na-induced changes in HR vs. RSNA control by the arterial and cardiopulmonary baroreflex, which is suggestive of central mechanisms affected by dietary Na. The developing nervous system appears to be the most responsive to dietary Na.


Neuropeptides ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sordaini M. Caligiorne ◽  
Ana Quênia G. Silva ◽  
Marco A.P. Fontes ◽  
Jose R. Silva ◽  
Ovidiu Baltatu ◽  
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