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Zoccal DB, Vieira BN, Mendes LR, Evangelista AB, Leirão IP. Hypoxia sensing in the body: An update on the peripheral and central mechanisms. Exp Physiol 2024; 109:461-469. [PMID: 38031809 PMCID: PMC10988761 DOI: 10.1113/ep091206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2023] [Accepted: 11/15/2023] [Indexed: 12/01/2023]
Abstract
An adequate supply of O2 is essential for the maintenance of cellular activity. Systemic or local hypoxia can be experienced during decreased O2 availability or associated with diseases, or a combination of both. Exposure to hypoxia triggers adjustments in multiple physiological systems in the body to generate appropriate homeostatic responses. However, with significant reductions in the arterial partial pressure of O2, hypoxia can be life-threatening and cause maladaptive changes or cell damage and death. To mitigate the impact of limited O2 availability on cellular activity, O2 chemoreceptors rapidly detect and respond to reductions in the arterial partial pressure of O2, triggering orchestrated responses of increased ventilation and cardiac output, blood flow redistribution and metabolic adjustments. In mammals, the peripheral chemoreceptors of the carotid body are considered to be the main hypoxic sensors and the primary source of excitatory feedback driving respiratory, cardiovascular and autonomic responses. However, current evidence indicates that the CNS contains specialized brainstem and spinal cord regions that can also sense hypoxia and stimulate brain networks independently of the carotid body inputs. In this manuscript, we review the discoveries about the functioning of the O2 chemoreceptors and their contribution to the monitoring of O2 levels in the blood and brain parenchyma and mounting cardiorespiratory responses to maintain O2 homeostasis. We also discuss the implications of the chemoreflex-related mechanisms in paediatric and adult pathologies.
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- Daniel B. Zoccal
- Department of Physiology and Pathology, School of Dentistry of AraraquaraSão Paulo State University (UNESP)AraraquaraSão PauloBrazil
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- Department of Physiology and Pathology, School of Dentistry of AraraquaraSão Paulo State University (UNESP)AraraquaraSão PauloBrazil
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- Department of Physiology and Pathology, School of Dentistry of AraraquaraSão Paulo State University (UNESP)AraraquaraSão PauloBrazil
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- Department of Physiology and Pathology, School of Dentistry of AraraquaraSão Paulo State University (UNESP)AraraquaraSão PauloBrazil
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- Department of Physiology and Pathology, School of Dentistry of AraraquaraSão Paulo State University (UNESP)AraraquaraSão PauloBrazil
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Manghat NE, Robinson E, Mitrousi K, Rodrigues JCL, Hinton T, Paton JFR, Wise RG, Nightingale AK, Hart EC. Cerebrovascular Variants and the Role of the Selfish Brain in Young-Onset Hypertension. Hypertension 2022; 79:1265-1274. [PMID: 35291807 PMCID: PMC9093235 DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.121.18612] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Variants in the posterior anatomy of the cerebral circulation are associated with hypertension and lower cerebral blood flow in midlife (age ≈55 years); however, whether these variants are a result of aging or long-term exposure to high blood pressure is unclear. Additionally, the role these variants play in early onset of hypertension (<40 years) and poor cerebral perfusion in this population is unknown. METHODS We retrospectively examined whether specific cerebrovascular variants (vertebral artery hypoplasia and absent/hypoplastic posterior communicating arteries (an incomplete posterior circle of Willis) measured via magnetic resonance angiography) were associated with a diagnosis of hypertension in 220 young adults (<40 years; n=164 primary hypertensive [mean age±SD, 32±6 years] and n=56 [30±6 years] normotensive adults). Whether cerebrovascular variants were associated with lower cerebral blood flow (phase-contrast angiography) was measured in the hypertensive group only (n=146). RESULTS Binary logistic regression (adjusted for age, sex, and body mass index) showed that vertebral artery hypoplasia with an incomplete posterior circle of Willis was associated with hypertension diagnosis (P<0.001, odds ratio; 11.79 [95% CI, 3.34-41.58]). Vertebral artery hypoplasia plus an incomplete circle of Willis was associated with lower cerebral blood flow in young adults with hypertension (P=0.0172). CONCLUSIONS Vertebral artery hypoplasia plus an incomplete posterior circle of Willis independently predicts hypertension in young adults suggesting that this variant is not acquired with aging into midlife. Importantly this variant combination was associated with lower cerebral perfusion, which may have long-term consequences on cerebrovascular health in young adults with hypertension.
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- Nathan E Manghat
- Department of Radiology, Bristol Royal Infirmary, University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom (N.E.M., E.R., K.M.).,Cardionomics Research Group, School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neurosciences, University of Bristol, United Kingdom (N.E.M., K.M., T.H., A.K.N., E.C.H.)
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- Department of Radiology, Bristol Royal Infirmary, University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom (N.E.M., E.R., K.M.)
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- Department of Radiology, Bristol Royal Infirmary, University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom (N.E.M., E.R., K.M.).,Cardionomics Research Group, School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neurosciences, University of Bristol, United Kingdom (N.E.M., K.M., T.H., A.K.N., E.C.H.)
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- Department of Radiology, Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust (J.C.L.R.).,Department of Health, University of Bath, United Kingdom (J.C.L.R.)
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- Cardionomics Research Group, School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neurosciences, University of Bristol, United Kingdom (N.E.M., K.M., T.H., A.K.N., E.C.H.)
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- Manaaki Manawa, The Centre for Heart Research, Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medical & Health Sciences, University of Auckland, New Zealand (J.F.R.P.)
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- Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre, School of Psychology, Cardiff University (R.G.W.).,Department of Neuroscience, Imaging and Clinical Sciences (R.G.W.).,ITAB-Institute for Advanced Biomedical Technologies (R.G.W.)
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- Cardionomics Research Group, School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neurosciences, University of Bristol, United Kingdom (N.E.M., K.M., T.H., A.K.N., E.C.H.).,"G. D'Annunzio" University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy. Clinical Research Facility, University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom (A.K.N., E.C.H.)
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- Cardionomics Research Group, School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neurosciences, University of Bristol, United Kingdom (N.E.M., K.M., T.H., A.K.N., E.C.H.).,"G. D'Annunzio" University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy. Clinical Research Facility, University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom (A.K.N., E.C.H.)
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Jordão MT, Ceroni A, Michelini LC. Perfusion of Brain Preautonomic Areas in Hypertension: Compensatory Absence of Capillary Rarefaction and Protective Effects of Exercise Training. Front Physiol 2021; 12:773415. [PMID: 34975525 PMCID: PMC8716837 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2021.773415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2021] [Accepted: 11/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Remodeling of capillary rarefaction and deleterious arteries are characteristic hallmarks of hypertension that are partially corrected by exercise training. In addition, experimental evidence showed capillary rarefaction within the brain cortex and reduced cerebral blood flow. There is no information on hypertension- and exercise-induced effects on capillary profile and function within preautonomic nuclei. We sought now to evaluate the effects of hypertension and exercise training (T) on the capillary network within hypothalamic paraventricular (PVN) and solitary tract (NTS) nuclei, and on the remodeling of brain arteries. Age-matched spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and Wistar-Kyoto (WKY), submitted to moderate T or kept sedentary (S) for three months, were chronically cannulated for hemodynamic recordings at rest. Rats were anesthetized for i.v. administration of fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)-dextran (capillary volume/density measurements) or 4% paraformaldehyde perfusion (basilar, middle, and posterior arteries' morphometry) followed by brain harvesting and processing. Other groups of conscious rats had carotid blood flow (CBF, ultrasound flowmeter) acquired simultaneously with hemodynamic recordings at rest and exercise. SHR-S exhibited elevated pressure and heart rate, reduced CBF, increased wall/lumen ratio of arteries, but no capillary rarefaction within the PVN and NTS. T improved performance gain and caused resting bradycardia in both groups; reduction of pressure and sympathetic vasomotor activity and normalization of the wall/lumen ratio were only observed in SHR-T. T groups responded with marked PVN and NTS capillary angiogenesis and augmented CBF during exercise; to avoid overperfusion at rest, reduced basal CBF was observed only in WKY-T. Data indicated that the absence of SHR-S capillary rarefaction and the intense SHR-T angiogenesis within autonomic areas associated with correction of deleterious arteries' remodeling are essential adjustments to hypertension and exercise training, respectively. These adaptive responses maintain adequate baseline perfusion in SHR-S and SHR-T preautonomic nuclei, augmenting it in exercised rats when a well-coordinated autonomic control is required.
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- Maria Tereza Jordão
- Department Physiology & Biophysics, Biomedical Sciences Institute, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- Santa Cecilia University (UNISANTA), Santos, Brazil
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- Department Physiology & Biophysics, Biomedical Sciences Institute, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department Physiology & Biophysics, Biomedical Sciences Institute, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- *Correspondence: Lisete C. Michelini ; orcid.org/0000-0003-2978-5406
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Jennings JR, Muldoon MF, Sved AF. Is the Brain an Early or Late Component of Essential Hypertension? Am J Hypertens 2020; 33:482-490. [PMID: 32170317 DOI: 10.1093/ajh/hpaa038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2019] [Revised: 02/17/2020] [Accepted: 03/11/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
The brain's relationship to essential hypertension is primarily understood to be that of an end-organ, damaged late in life by stroke or dementia. Emerging evidence, however, shows that heightened blood pressure (BP) early in life and prior to traditionally defined hypertension, relates to altered brain structure, cerebrovascular function, and cognitive processing. Deficits in cognitive function, cerebral blood flow responsivity, volumes of brain areas, and white matter integrity all relate to increased but prehypertensive levels of BP. Such relationships may be observed as early as childhood. In this review, we consider the basis of these relationships by examining the emergence of putative causative factors for hypertension that would impact or involve brain function/structure, e.g., sympathetic nervous system activation and related endocrine and inflammatory activation. Currently, however, available evidence is not sufficient to fully explain the specific pattern of brain deficits related to heightened BP. Despite this uncertainty, the evidence reviewed suggests the value that early intervention may have, not only for reducing BP, but also for maintaining brain function.
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- John Richard Jennings
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Heart and Vascular Institute, Hypertension Center, UPMC Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Center for Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Department of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Nandi M, Aston PJ. Extracting new information from old waveforms: Symmetric projection attractor reconstruction: Where maths meets medicine. Exp Physiol 2020; 105:1444-1451. [PMID: 32347611 DOI: 10.1113/ep087873] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2019] [Accepted: 04/23/2020] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
Abstract
NEW FINDINGS What is the topic of this review? Symmetric Projection Attractor Reconstruction (SPAR) is a relatively new mathematical method that can extract additional information pertaining to the morphology and variability of physiological waveforms, such as arterial pulse pressure. Herein, we describe the potential utility of the method for more sensitive quantification of cardiovascular changes. What advances does it highlight? We use a simple example of a human tilt table to illustrate these concepts. SPAR can be used on any approximately periodic waveform and may add value to experimental and clinical settings, where such signals are collected routinely. ABSTRACT Periodic physiological waveform data, such as blood pressure, pulse oximetry and ECG, are routinely sampled between 100 and 1000 Hz in preclinical research and in the clinical setting from a wide variety of implantable, bedside and wearable monitoring devices. Despite the underlying numerical waveform data being captured at such high fidelity, conventional analysis tends to reside in reporting only averages of minimum, maximum, amplitude and rate, as single point averages. Although these averages are undoubtedly of value, simplification of the data in this way means that most of the available numerical data are discarded. In turn, this may lead to subtle physiological changes being missed when investigating the cardiovascular system over time. We have developed a mathematical method (symmetric projection attractor reconstruction) that uses all the numerical data, replotting and revisualizing them in a manner that allows unique quantification of multiple changes in waveform morphology and variability. We propose that the additional quantification of these features will allow the complex behaviour of the cardiovascular system to be mapped more sensitively in different physiological and pathophysiological settings.
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- Manasi Nandi
- School of Cancer and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Mathematics, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
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Che W, Dong H, Jiang X, Xiong H, Chen Y, Zou Y, Xu B, Gao R. The effect of stenting on blood pressure in hypertensive patients with symptomatic proximal subclavian or vertebral artery stenosis. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 2019; 95 Suppl 1:633-640. [PMID: 31868309 DOI: 10.1002/ccd.28650] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2019] [Accepted: 12/08/2019] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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OBJECTIVE This study aimed to evaluate the effect of stenting on blood pressure in hypertensive patients with symptomatic proximal subclavian or vertebral artery stenosis. BACKGROUND Whether posterior circulation revascularization could reduce blood pressure in hypertensive patients with posterior circulation hypoperfusion has not been investigated in humans. METHODS A total of 48 patients with essential hypertension (33 males; mean age 63.0 ± 8.7 years) with symptomatic proximal subclavian or vertebral artery stenosis who underwent stenting successfully at the Fuwai Hospital were prospectively enrolled between January 2014 and December 2015. All 48 patients were followed up at 1, 3, and 6 months after the procedure. Blood pressure, use of antihypertensive agents, and complications were investigated. RESULTS Baseline values included office blood pressure of 132/77 ± 10/8 mmHg, mean 24-hr blood pressure of 127/75 ± 12/9 mmHg, and mean antihypertensive agents used of 1.6 ± 0.8. Stenosis of the subclavian and vertebral arteries decreased from 88.9 ± 9.5% and 85.8 ± 7.4% to 5.5 ± 3.5% and 4.6 ± 3.7%, respectively, immediately after the procedure. Reductions in office blood pressure were - 7/-3 (SD 3/2), -9/-4 (5/3), and - 10/-5 (7/5) mmHg at 1, 3, and 6 months, respectively. While 24-hr blood pressures after the procedure reduced by -5/-3 mmHg at 6 months, the total number of antihypertensive agents used at the aforementioned time points was unchanged. CONCLUSION This first prospective cohort study in humans showed that posterior circulation stenting is apparently effective in reducing blood pressure in hypertensive patients with symptomatic proximal subclavian or vertebral artery stenosis.
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- Wuqiang Che
- Department of Cardiology, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Disease, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Disease, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Department of Cardiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Disease, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Disease, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Disease, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Disease, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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Kandil H, Soliman A, Taher F, Ghazal M, Khalil A, Giridharan G, Keynton R, Jennings JR, El-Baz A. A novel computer-aided diagnosis system for the early detection of hypertension based on cerebrovascular alterations. NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL 2019; 25:102107. [PMID: 31830715 PMCID: PMC6926373 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2019.102107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2019] [Revised: 10/31/2019] [Accepted: 11/19/2019] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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3-D CNN segmentation succeeded in delineating cerebrovasculature accurately. Segmentation approach is automatic and applicable on healthy/pathological vessels. Blood flow variability challenge was addressed by processing MRA scans locally. Proposed vascular features were efficient to quantify cerebral changes. Proposed CAD system could help clinicians predict hypertension before its onset.
Hypertension is a leading cause of mortality in the USA. While simple tools such as the sphygmomanometer are widely used to diagnose hypertension, they could not predict the disease before its onset. Clinical studies suggest that alterations in the structure of human brains’ cerebrovasculature start to develop years before the onset of hypertension. In this research, we present a novel computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system for the early detection of hypertension. The proposed CAD system analyzes magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) data of human brains to detect and track the cerebral vascular alterations and this is achieved using the following steps: i) MRA data are preprocessed to eliminate noise effects, correct the bias field effect, reduce the contrast inhomogeneity using the generalized Gauss-Markov random field (GGMRF) model, and normalize the MRA data, ii) the cerebral vascular tree of each MRA volume is segmented using a 3-D convolutional neural network (3D-CNN), iii) cerebral features in terms of diameters and tortuosity of blood vessels are estimated and used to construct feature vectors, iv) feature vectors are then used to train and test various artificial neural networks to classify data into two classes; normal and hypertensive. A balanced data set of 66 subjects were used to test the CAD system. Experimental results reported a classification accuracy of 90.9% which supports the efficacy of the CAD system components to accurately model and discriminate between normal and hypertensive subjects. Clinicians would benefit from the proposed CAD system to detect and track cerebral vascular alterations over time for people with high potential of developing hypertension and to prepare appropriate treatment plans to mitigate adverse events.
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- Heba Kandil
- Bioimaging Laboratory, J.B Speed School of Engineering, University of Louisville, KY, USA; Information Technology Department, Faculty of Computer Science and Information, Mansoura University, Egypt
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- Bioimaging Laboratory, J.B Speed School of Engineering, University of Louisville, KY, USA
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- Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Abu Dhabi University, UAE
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- Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Abu Dhabi University, UAE
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- Bioimaging Laboratory, J.B Speed School of Engineering, University of Louisville, KY, USA
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- Bioimaging Laboratory, J.B Speed School of Engineering, University of Louisville, KY, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Bioimaging Laboratory, J.B Speed School of Engineering, University of Louisville, KY, USA.
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Kobuch S, Macefield VG, Henderson LA. Resting regional brain activity and connectivity vary with resting blood pressure but not muscle sympathetic nerve activity in normotensive humans: An exploratory study. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 2019; 39:2433-2444. [PMID: 30182800 PMCID: PMC6893974 DOI: 10.1177/0271678x18798442] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
Abstract
Blood pressure is tightly controlled by the central nervous system, particularly the brainstem. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between mean blood pressure (MBP), muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) and resting regional brain activity in healthy human subjects. Pseudocontinuous arterial spin labeling and functional magnetic resonance imaging of the brain were performed immediately following a laboratory microneurography recording of MSNA and BP measurement in 31 young, healthy normotensive subjects. Regional cerebral blood flow (CBF) correlated significantly with resting MBP levels in the region encompassing the rostroventrolateral medulla (RVLM), dorsolateral pons, and insular, prefrontal and cingulate cortices. Functional connectivity analysis revealed that the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex displayed greater resting connectivity strength within the RVLM in the lower compared with the higher MBP group. No significant differences in CBF were found when subjects were divided based on their MSNA levels. These results suggest that even subtle differences in resting MBP are associated with significant differences in resting activity in brain regions, which are well known to play a role in cardiovascular function. These data raise the question of the potential long-term consequences of differences in regional brain activity levels and their relationship with systemic blood pressure.
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- Sophie Kobuch
- School of Medicine, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia
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- School of Medicine, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia.,Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, Australia.,Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Anatomy and Histology, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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Malheiros-Lima MR, Antunes VR, Takakura AC, Moreira TS. Hypertension and sympathetic nervous system overactivity rely on the vascular tone of pial vessels of the rostral ventrolateral medulla in spontaneously hypertensive rats. Exp Physiol 2019; 105:65-74. [PMID: 31785061 DOI: 10.1113/ep088169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2019] [Accepted: 11/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
Abstract
NEW FINDINGS What is the central question of this study? Is purinergic signalling in the pial vessels involved in the control of vascular tone in the ventral surface of the brainstem, affecting high blood pressure and sympathetic overactivity in spontaneously hypertensive rats? What is the main finding and its importance? The regulation of vascular tone in the ventral surface of the brainstem is tailored to support neuronal functions, arterial pressure and sympathetic activity. This adds one more piece in the complex puzzle to understand the central mechanisms underlying the genesis of hypertension. ABSTRACT Evidence suggests the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM) region is chronically hypoperfused and hypoxic in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR), which can facilitate ATP release throughout the brainstem. Thus, we hypothesized that purinergic signalling plays a key role in the increased vascular tone in the RVLM region, which in turn could be responsible for the high sympathetic tone and blood pressure in the SHR. The application of an antagonist of P2 receptors, pyridoxalphosphate-6-azophenyl-2',4'-disulfonic acid (10 µm), or of P2Y1a receptors, MRS2179 (100 µm), on the surface of RVLM pial vessels of SHR produced an increase in the diameter of blood vessels (PPADS: 31 ± 1.4 µm or MRS2179: 32 ± 0.78 µm vs. saline: 27 ± 1.2 µm), an effect not observed in normotensive Wistar rats. In addition, the antagonism of P2 receptors was able to evoke a significant decrease in the arterial pressure, heart rate and splanchnic nerve activity in SHR, but not in Wistar rats. Our data show that SHR have higher vascular tone of pial vessels in the RVLM region when compared to the normotensive Wistar rats, a mechanism that relies on purinergic signalling through P2 receptors, suggesting a possible association with higher activity of sympathoexcitatory neurones, and sustained increases in blood pressure.
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- Milene R Malheiros-Lima
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, 05508, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, 05508, Brazil
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- Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, 05508, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, 05508, Brazil
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Rodrigues JCL, Jaring MFR, Werndle MC, Mitrousi K, Lyen SM, Nightingale AK, Hamilton MCK, Curtis SL, Manghat NE, Paton JFR, Hart EC. Repaired coarctation of the aorta, persistent arterial hypertension and the selfish brain. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson 2019; 21:68. [PMID: 31703697 PMCID: PMC6839237 DOI: 10.1186/s12968-019-0578-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2019] [Accepted: 09/21/2019] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND It has been estimated that 20-30% of repaired aortic coarctation (CoA) patients develop hypertension, with significant cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Vertebral artery hypoplasia (VAH) with an incomplete posterior circle of Willis (ipCoW; VAH + ipCoW) is associated with increased cerebrovascular resistance before the onset of increased sympathetic nerve activity in borderline hypertensive humans, suggesting brainstem hypoperfusion may evoke hypertension to maintain cerebral blood flow: the "selfish brain" hypothesis. We now assess the "selfish brain" in hypertension post-CoA repair. METHODS Time-of-flight cardiovascular magnetic resonance angiography from 127 repaired CoA patients (34 ± 14 years, 61% male, systolic blood pressure (SBP) 138 ± 19 mmHg, diastolic blood pressure (DBP) 76 ± 11 mmHg) was compared with 33 normotensive controls (42 ± 14 years, 48% male, SBP 124 ± 10 mmHg, DBP 76 ± 8 mmHg). VAH was defined as < 2 mm and ipCoW as hypoplasia of one or both posterior communicating arteries. RESULTS VAH + ipCoW was more prevalent in repaired CoA than controls (odds ratio: 5.8 [1.6-20.8], p = 0.007), after controlling for age, sex and body mass index (BMI). VAH + ipCoW was an independent predictor of hypertension (odds ratio: 2.5 [1.2-5.2], p = 0.017), after controlling for age, gender and BMI. Repaired CoA subjects with VAH + ipCoW were more likely to have difficult to treat hypertension (odds ratio: 3.3 [1.01-10.7], p = 0.049). Neither age at time of CoA repair nor any specific repair type were significant predictors of VAH + ipCoW in univariate regression analysis. CONCLUSIONS VAH + ipCoW predicts arterial hypertension and difficult to treat hypertension in repaired CoA. It is unrelated to age at time of repair or repair type. CoA appears to be a marker of wider congenital cerebrovascular problems. Understanding the "selfish brain" in post-CoA repair may help guide management. JOURNAL SUBJECT CODES High Blood Pressure; Hypertension; Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI); Cardiovascular Surgery; Cerebrovascular Malformations.
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- Jonathan C. L. Rodrigues
- Department of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, Bristol Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Bristol Heart Institute, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, UK
- School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience, Faculty of Biomedical Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Department of Radiology, Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust, Bath, UK
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- Department of Radiology, Bristol Royal Infirmary, University Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, UK
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- Department of Radiology, Bristol Royal Infirmary, University Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, UK
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- School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience, Faculty of Biomedical Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Department of Radiology, Bristol Royal Infirmary, University Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, UK
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- BHI CardioNomics Research Group, Clinical Research and Imaging Centre-Bristol, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Department of Radiology, Bristol Royal Infirmary, University Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, UK
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- Adult Congenital Heart Disease Unit, Bristol Heart Institute, Bristol Royal Infirmary, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Upper Maudlin Street, Bristol, UK
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- Department of Radiology, Bristol Royal Infirmary, University Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, UK
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- School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience, Faculty of Biomedical Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- BHI CardioNomics Research Group, Clinical Research and Imaging Centre-Bristol, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Park Road, Grafton, Auckland, New Zealand
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- School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience, Faculty of Biomedical Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- BHI CardioNomics Research Group, Clinical Research and Imaging Centre-Bristol, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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Walas D, Nowicki-Osuch K, Alibhai D, von Linstow Roloff E, Coghill J, Waterfall C, Paton JF. Inflammatory pathways are central to posterior cerebrovascular artery remodelling prior to the onset of congenital hypertension. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 2019; 39:1803-1817. [PMID: 29651914 PMCID: PMC6724458 DOI: 10.1177/0271678x18769180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Cerebral artery hypoperfusion may provide the basis for linking ischemic stroke with hypertension. Brain hypoperfusion may induce hypertension that may serve as an auto-protective mechanism to prevent ischemic stroke. We hypothesised that hypertension is caused by remodelling of the cerebral arteries, which is triggered by inflammation. We used a congenital rat model of hypertension and examined age-related changes in gene expression of the cerebral arteries using RNA sequencing. Prior to hypertension, we found changes in signalling pathways associated with the immune system and fibrosis. Validation studies using second harmonics generation microscopy revealed upregulation of collagen type I and IV in both tunica externa and media. These changes in the extracellular matrix of cerebral arteries pre-empted hypertension accounting for their increased stiffness and resistance, both potentially conducive to stroke. These data indicate that inflammatory driven cerebral artery remodelling occurs prior to the onset of hypertension and may be a trigger elevating systemic blood pressure in genetically programmed hypertension.
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- Dawid Walas
- 1 School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Biomedical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- 3 Wolfson Bioimaging Facility, School of Biochemistry, Biomedical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- 1 School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Biomedical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- 4 Genomics Facility, School of Biological Sciences, Bristol, UK
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- 1 School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Biomedical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.,5 Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Grafton, New Zealand
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Yang T, Magee KL, Colon-Perez LM, Larkin R, Liao YS, Balazic E, Cowart JR, Arocha R, Redler T, Febo M, Vickroy T, Martyniuk CJ, Reznikov LR, Zubcevic J. Impaired butyrate absorption in the proximal colon, low serum butyrate and diminished central effects of butyrate on blood pressure in spontaneously hypertensive rats. Acta Physiol (Oxf) 2019; 226:e13256. [PMID: 30656835 DOI: 10.1111/apha.13256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2018] [Revised: 12/03/2018] [Accepted: 01/11/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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AIM Butyrate is a major gut microbiota-derived metabolite. Reduced butyrate-producing bacteria has been reported in the spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR), a model of hypertension characterized by dysfunctional autonomic nervous system and gut dysbiosis. Here, we demonstrate a potential mechanism for butyrate in blood pressure regulation. METHODS High-performance liquid chromatography and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry were performed to measure butyrate levels in feces and serum. Ussing chamber determined butyrate transport in colon ex vivo. Real-time PCR and immunohistochemistry evaluated expression of butyrate transporter, Slc5a8, in the colon. Mean arterial blood pressure was measured in catheterized anesthetized rats before and after a single butyrate intracerebroventricular injection. Activity of cardioregulatory brain regions was determined by functional magnetic resonance imaging to derive neural effects of butyrate. RESULTS In the SHR, we demonstrated elevated butyrate levels in cecal content, but diminished butyrate levels in circulation, possibly due to reduced expression of Slc5a8 transporter in the colon. In addition, we observed lower expression levels of butyrate-sensing receptors in the hypothalamus of SHR, likely leading to the reduced effects of centrally administered butyrate on blood pressure in the SHR. Functional magnetic resonance imaging revealed reduced activation of cardioregulatory brain regions following central administration of butyrate in the SHR compared to control. CONCLUSION We demonstrated a reduced availability of serum butyrate in the SHR, possibly due to diminished colonic absorption. Reduced expression of butyrate-sensing receptors in the SHR hypothalamus may explain the reduced central responsiveness to butyrate, indicating microbial butyrate may play a role in blood pressure regulation.
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- Tao Yang
- Physiological Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine; University of Florida; Gainesville Florida
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- Physiological Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine; University of Florida; Gainesville Florida
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- Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine; University of Florida; Gainesville Florida
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- Physiological Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine; University of Florida; Gainesville Florida
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- Physiological Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine; University of Florida; Gainesville Florida
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- Physiological Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine; University of Florida; Gainesville Florida
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- Physiological Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine; University of Florida; Gainesville Florida
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- Physiological Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine; University of Florida; Gainesville Florida
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- Physiological Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine; University of Florida; Gainesville Florida
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- Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine; University of Florida; Gainesville Florida
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- Physiological Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine; University of Florida; Gainesville Florida
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- Physiological Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine; University of Florida; Gainesville Florida
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- Physiological Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine; University of Florida; Gainesville Florida
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- Physiological Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine; University of Florida; Gainesville Florida
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Guyenet PG, Stornetta RL, Holloway BB, Souza GMPR, Abbott SBG. Rostral Ventrolateral Medulla and Hypertension. Hypertension 2019; 72:559-566. [PMID: 30354763 DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.118.10921] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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- Patrice G Guyenet
- From the Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
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- From the Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
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- From the Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
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- From the Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
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- From the Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
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Olesen ND, Nielsen HB, Olsen NV, Secher NH. The age-related reduction in cerebral blood flow affects vertebral artery more than internal carotid artery blood flow. Clin Physiol Funct Imaging 2019; 39:255-260. [PMID: 30897269 DOI: 10.1111/cpf.12568] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2018] [Accepted: 03/18/2019] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Ageing reduces cerebral blood flow (CBF), while mean arterial pressure (MAP) becomes elevated. According to 'the selfish brain' hypothesis of hypertension, a reduction in vertebral artery blood flow (VA) leads to increased sympathetic activity and thus increases MAP. In twenty-two young (24 ± 3 years; mean ± SD) and eleven elderly (70 ± 5 years) normotensive men, duplex ultrasound evaluated whether the age-related reduction in CBF affects VA more than internal carotid artery (ICA) blood flow. Pulse-contour analysis evaluated MAP while near-infrared spectroscopy determined frontal lobe oxygenation and transcranial Doppler middle cerebral artery mean blood velocity (MCA Vmean ). During supine rest, MAP (90 ± 13 versus 78 ± 9 mmHg; P<0·001) was elevated in the older subjects while their frontal lobe oxygenation (68 ± 7% versus 77 ± 7%; P<0·001), MCA Vmean (49 ± 9 versus 60 ± 12 cm s-1 ; P = 0·016) and CBF (754 ± 112 versus 900 ± 144 ml min-1 ; P = 0·004) were low reflected in VA (138 ± 48 versus 219 ± 50 ml min-1 ; P<0·001) rather than in ICA flow (616 ± 96 versus 680 ± 120 ml min-1 ; P = 0·099). In conclusion, blood supply to the brain and its oxygenation are affected by ageing and the age-related decline in VA flow appears to be four times as large as that in ICA and could be important for the age-related increase in MAP.
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- Niels D Olesen
- Department of Anaesthesia, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Anaesthesia, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Anaesthesia, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Guild SJ, Saxena UA, McBryde FD, Malpas SC, Ramchandra R. Intracranial pressure influences the level of sympathetic tone. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2018; 315:R1049-R1053. [PMID: 30207755 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00183.2018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Sympathetic overdrive is associated with many diseases, but its origin remains an enigma. An emerging hypothesis in the development of cardiovascular disease is that the brain puts the utmost priority on maintaining its own blood supply; even if this comes at the "cost" of high blood pressure to the rest of the body. A critical step in making a causative link between reduced brain blood flow and cardiovascular disease is how changes in cerebral perfusion affect the sympathetic nervous system. A direct link between decreases in cerebral perfusion pressure and sympathetic tone generation in a conscious large animal has not been shown. We hypothesized that there is a novel control pathway between physiological levels of intracranial pressure (ICP) and blood pressure via the sympathetic nervous system. Intracerebroventricular infusion of saline produced a ramped increase in ICP of up to 20 mmHg over a 30-min infusion period (baseline 4.0 ± 1.1 mmHg). The ICP increase was matched by an increase in mean arterial pressure such that cerebral perfusion pressure remained constant. Direct recordings of renal sympathetic nerve activity indicated that sympathetic drive increased with increasing ICP. Ganglionic blockade, by hexamethonium, preventing sympathetic transmission, abolished the increase in arterial pressure in response to increased ICP and was associated with a significant decrease in cerebral perfusion pressure. This is the first study to show that physiological elevations in ICP regulate renal sympathetic activity in conscious animals. We have demonstrated a novel physiological mechanism linking ICP levels with sympathetic discharge via a possible novel intracranial baroreflex.
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- Sarah-Jane Guild
- Cardiovascular Autonomic Research Cluster, Department of Physiology, University of Auckland , Auckland , New Zealand.,Auckland Bioengineering Institute , Auckland , New Zealand
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- Cardiovascular Autonomic Research Cluster, Department of Physiology, University of Auckland , Auckland , New Zealand
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- Cardiovascular Autonomic Research Cluster, Department of Physiology, University of Auckland , Auckland , New Zealand.,Auckland Bioengineering Institute , Auckland , New Zealand
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- Cardiovascular Autonomic Research Cluster, Department of Physiology, University of Auckland , Auckland , New Zealand
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Roloff EVL, Walas D, Moraes DJA, Kasparov S, Paton JFR. Differences in autonomic innervation to the vertebrobasilar arteries in spontaneously hypertensive and Wistar rats. J Physiol 2018; 596:3505-3529. [PMID: 29797726 PMCID: PMC6092310 DOI: 10.1113/jp275973] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2018] [Accepted: 05/03/2018] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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KEY POINTS Essential hypertension is associated with hyperactivity of the sympathetic nervous system and hypoperfusion of the brainstem area controlling arterial pressure. Sympathetic and parasympathetic innervation of vertebrobasilar arteries may regulate blood perfusion to the brainstem. We examined the autonomic innervation of these arteries in pre-hypertensive (PHSH) and hypertensive spontaneously hypertensive (SH) rats relative to age-matched Wistar rats. Our main findings were: (1) an unexpected decrease in noradrenergic sympathetic innervation in PHSH and SH compared to Wistar rats despite elevated sympathetic drive in PHSH rats; (2) a dramatic deficit in cholinergic and peptidergic parasympathetic innervation in PHSH and SH compared to Wistar rats; and (3) denervation of sympathetic fibres did not alter vertebrobasilar artery morphology or arterial pressure. Our results support a compromised vasodilatory capacity in PHSH and SH rats compared to Wistar rats, which may explain their hypoperfused brainstem. ABSTRACT Neurogenic hypertension may result from brainstem hypoperfusion. We previously found remodelling (decreased lumen, increased wall thickness) in vertebrobasilar arteries of juvenile, pre-hypertensive spontaneously hypertensive (PHSH) and adult spontaneously hypertensive (SH) rats compared to age-matched normotensive rats. We tested the hypothesis that there would be a greater density of sympathetic to parasympathetic innervation of vertebrobasilar arteries in SH versus Wistar rats irrespective of the stage of development and that sympathetic denervation (ablation of the superior cervical ganglia bilaterally) would reverse the remodelling and lower blood pressure. Contrary to our hypothesis, immunohistochemistry revealed a decrease in the innervation density of noradrenergic sympathetic fibres in adult SH rats (P < 0.01) compared to Wistar rats. Unexpectedly, there was a 65% deficit in parasympathetic fibres, as assessed by both vesicular acetylcholine transporter (α-VAChT) and vasoactive intestinal peptide (α-VIP) immunofluorescence (P < 0.002) in PHSH rats compared to age-matched Wistar rats. Although the neural activity of the internal cervical sympathetic branch, which innervates the vertebrobasilar arteries, was higher in PHSH relative to Wistar rats, its denervation had no effect on the vertebrobasilar artery morphology or persistent effect on arterial pressure in SH rats. Our neuroanatomic and functional data do not support a role for sympathetic nerves in remodelling of the vertebrobasilar artery wall in PHSH or SH rats. The remodelling of vertebrobasilar arteries and the elevated activity in the internal cervical sympathetic nerve coupled with their reduced parasympathetic innervation suggests a compromised vasodilatory capacity in PHSH and SH rats that could explain their brainstem hypoperfusion.
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- Eva v. L. Roloff
- School of PhysiologyPharmacology and NeuroscienceBiomedical SciencesUniversity of BristolBristol BS8 1TDUK
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- School of PhysiologyPharmacology and NeuroscienceBiomedical SciencesUniversity of BristolBristol BS8 1TDUK
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- Department of PhysiologySchool of Medicine of Ribeirão PretoUniversity of São PauloRibeirão PretoSP 14049–900Brazil
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- School of PhysiologyPharmacology and NeuroscienceBiomedical SciencesUniversity of BristolBristol BS8 1TDUK
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- School of PhysiologyPharmacology and NeuroscienceBiomedical SciencesUniversity of BristolBristol BS8 1TDUK
- Department of PhysiologyFaculty of Medical and Health SciencesThe University of Auckland85 Park RoadGraftonAuckland1142New Zealand
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Marina N, Turovsky E, Christie IN, Hosford PS, Hadjihambi A, Korsak A, Ang R, Mastitskaya S, Sheikhbahaei S, Theparambil SM, Gourine AV. Brain metabolic sensing and metabolic signaling at the level of an astrocyte. Glia 2018; 66:1185-1199. [PMID: 29274121 PMCID: PMC5947829 DOI: 10.1002/glia.23283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2017] [Revised: 10/04/2017] [Accepted: 11/29/2017] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
Abstract
Astrocytes support neuronal function by providing essential structural and nutritional support, neurotransmitter trafficking and recycling and may also contribute to brain information processing. In this article we review published results and report new data suggesting that astrocytes function as versatile metabolic sensors of central nervous system (CNS) milieu and play an important role in the maintenance of brain metabolic homeostasis. We discuss anatomical and functional features of astrocytes that allow them to detect and respond to changes in the brain parenchymal levels of metabolic substrates (oxygen and glucose), and metabolic waste products (carbon dioxide). We report data suggesting that astrocytes are also sensitive to circulating endocrine signals-hormones like ghrelin, glucagon-like peptide-1 and leptin, that have a major impact on the CNS mechanisms controlling food intake and energy balance. We discuss signaling mechanisms that mediate communication between astrocytes and neurons and consider how these mechanisms are recruited by astrocytes activated in response to various metabolic challenges. We review experimental data suggesting that astrocytes modulate the activities of the respiratory and autonomic neuronal networks that ensure adaptive changes in breathing and sympathetic drive in order to support the physiological and behavioral demands of the organism in ever-changing environmental conditions. Finally, we discuss evidence suggesting that altered astroglial function may contribute to the pathogenesis of disparate neurological, respiratory and cardiovascular disorders such as Rett syndrome and systemic arterial hypertension.
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- Nephtali Marina
- Centre for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Neuroscience, Neuroscience, Physiology & PharmacologyUniversity College LondonLondonWC1E 6BTUnited Kingdom
- Research Department of Metabolism and Experimental Therapeutics, Division of MedicineUniversity College LondonLondonWC1E 6JJUnited Kingdom
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- Laboratory of Intracellular SignallingInstitute of Cell Biophysics, Russian Academy of SciencesPushchinoRussia
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- Centre for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Neuroscience, Neuroscience, Physiology & PharmacologyUniversity College LondonLondonWC1E 6BTUnited Kingdom
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- Centre for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Neuroscience, Neuroscience, Physiology & PharmacologyUniversity College LondonLondonWC1E 6BTUnited Kingdom
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- Centre for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Neuroscience, Neuroscience, Physiology & PharmacologyUniversity College LondonLondonWC1E 6BTUnited Kingdom
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- Centre for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Neuroscience, Neuroscience, Physiology & PharmacologyUniversity College LondonLondonWC1E 6BTUnited Kingdom
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- Centre for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Neuroscience, Neuroscience, Physiology & PharmacologyUniversity College LondonLondonWC1E 6BTUnited Kingdom
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- Centre for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Neuroscience, Neuroscience, Physiology & PharmacologyUniversity College LondonLondonWC1E 6BTUnited Kingdom
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- Centre for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Neuroscience, Neuroscience, Physiology & PharmacologyUniversity College LondonLondonWC1E 6BTUnited Kingdom
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- Centre for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Neuroscience, Neuroscience, Physiology & PharmacologyUniversity College LondonLondonWC1E 6BTUnited Kingdom
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- Centre for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Neuroscience, Neuroscience, Physiology & PharmacologyUniversity College LondonLondonWC1E 6BTUnited Kingdom
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Hart EC. Human hypertension, sympathetic activity and the selfish brain. Exp Physiol 2018; 101:1451-1462. [PMID: 27519960 DOI: 10.1113/ep085775] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2016] [Accepted: 08/10/2016] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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NEW FINDINGS What is the topic of this review? This review article revisits an historical hypothesis that cerebral hypoperfusion, caused by elevated cerebral vascular resistances, causes the onset of high sympathetic nerve activity and hypertension in humans. What advances does it highlight? The review article highlights new evidence indicating that congenital cerebrovascular abnormalities, namely vertebral artery hypoplasia and an incomplete posterior circle of Willis, may play a role in the onset of hypertension. Despite the harmful consequences of high blood pressure (hypertension; e.g. stroke, renal failure, dementia and even death), the underlying physiological mechanisms that cause the onset of hypertension are poorly understood. The most established finding is that hypertension occurs alongside activation of the sympathetic nervous system, yet exactly what triggers this in humans is ambiguous. This review discusses evidence for elevated sympathetic nerve activity, particularly in human hypertension, and revisits an historical theory regarding the aetiology underlying human hypertension that was proposed by Seymour Kety and John Dickinson in the 1940s-1950s. My research group hypothesizes that elevated sympathetic nerve activity and hypertension develop as a fundamental mechanism to maintain adequate cerebral blood flow, which is now termed Cushing's mechanism or the selfish brain hypothesis. Moreover, it goes against the traditional belief that high cerebrovascular resistance is a consequence of hypertension; we propose that this elevated resistance drives hypertension. This review discusses historical and new evidence in animals and humans supporting this hypothesis. In particular, unique human data indicating a higher prevalence of congenital cerebral vascular abnormalities in hypertension are considered.
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- Emma C Hart
- School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Clinical Research and Imaging Centre, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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Wang L, Mu Z, Lin X, Geng J, Xiao TQ, Zhang Z, Wang Y, Guan Y, Yang GY. Simultaneous Imaging of Cerebrovascular Structure and Function in Hypertensive Rats Using Synchrotron Radiation Angiography. Front Aging Neurosci 2017; 9:359. [PMID: 29163140 PMCID: PMC5673661 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2017.00359] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2017] [Accepted: 10/19/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Hypertension has a profound influence on the structure and function of blood vessels. Cerebral vessels undergo both structural and functional changes in hypertensive animals. However, dynamic changes of cerebrovasculature and the factors involved in this process are largely unknown. In this study, we explored the dynamic changes of vascular structure in hypertensive rats using novel synchrotron radiation angiography. Twenty-four spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and 24 Sprague–Dawley (SD) rats underwent synchrotron radiation (SR) angiography. Each group had 8 animals. We studied the cerebral vascular changes in SHR over a time period of 3–12-month and performed quantitative analysis. No vascular morphology differences between SHR and SD rats were observed in the early stage of hypertension. The number of twisted blood vessels in the front brain significantly increased at the 9- and 12-month observation time-points in the SHR compared to the SD rats (p < 0.01). The vessel density of the cortex and the striatum in SHR was consistently higher than that in SD rats at time points of 3-, 9-, and 12-month (p < 0.001). Vascular elasticity decreased both in SHR and SD rats with aging. There were statistically significant differences in the relative vascular elasticity of extracranial/intracranial internal carotid artery, middle cerebral artery, posterior cerebral artery and anterior cerebral artery between SHR and SD rats at 12-month (p < 0.01). We concluded that the dynamic vascular alterations detected by SR angiography provided novel imaging data for the study of hypertension in vivo. The longer the course of hypertension was, the more obvious the vascular differences between the SHR and the SD rats became.
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- Liping Wang
- Department of Neurology, Ruijin Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.,Med-X Research Institute and School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- Med-X Research Institute and School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.,Department of Pathology and Pathophysiology, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China
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- Med-X Research Institute and School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Neurology, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, CAS, Shanghai, China
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- Med-X Research Institute and School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- Med-X Research Institute and School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Radiology, Ruijin Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Neurology, Ruijin Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.,Med-X Research Institute and School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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McBryde FD, Malpas SC, Paton JFR. Intracranial mechanisms for preserving brain blood flow in health and disease. Acta Physiol (Oxf) 2017; 219:274-287. [PMID: 27172364 DOI: 10.1111/apha.12706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2015] [Revised: 02/03/2016] [Accepted: 05/06/2016] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The brain is an exceptionally energetically demanding organ with little metabolic reserve, and multiple systems operate to protect and preserve the brain blood supply. But how does the brain sense its own perfusion? In this review, we discuss how the brain may harness the cardiovascular system to counter threats to cerebral perfusion sensed via intracranial pressure (ICP), cerebral oxygenation and ischaemia. Since the work of Cushing over 100 years ago, the existence of brain baroreceptors capable of eliciting increases in sympathetic outflow and blood pressure has been hypothesized. In the clinic, this response has generally been thought to occur only in extremis, to perfuse the severely ischaemic brain as cerebral autoregulation fails. We review evidence that pressor responses may also occur with smaller, physiologically relevant increases in ICP. The incoming brain oxygen supply is closely monitored by the carotid chemoreceptors; however, hypoxia and other markers of ischaemia are also sensed intrinsically by astrocytes or other support cells within brain tissue itself and elicit reactive hyperaemia. Recent studies suggest that astrocytic oxygen signalling within the brainstem may directly affect sympathetic nerve activity and blood pressure. We speculate that local cerebral oxygen tension is a major determinant of the mean level of arterial pressure and discuss recent evidence that this may be the case. We conclude that intrinsic intra- and extra-cranial mechanisms sense and integrate information about hypoxia/ischaemia and ICP and play a major role in determining the long-term level of sympathetic outflow and arterial pressure, to optimize cerebral perfusion.
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- F. D. McBryde
- Department of Physiology; Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences; University of Auckland; Auckland New Zealand
- School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience; Biomedical Sciences; University of Bristol; Bristol UK
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- Department of Physiology; Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences; University of Auckland; Auckland New Zealand
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- Department of Physiology; Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences; University of Auckland; Auckland New Zealand
- School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience; Biomedical Sciences; University of Bristol; Bristol UK
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Warnert EA, Rodrigues JC, Burchell AE, Neumann S, Ratcliffe LE, Manghat NE, Harris AD, Adams Z, Nightingale AK, Wise RG, Paton JF, Hart EC. Is High Blood Pressure Self-Protection for the Brain? Circ Res 2016; 119:e140-e151. [DOI: 10.1161/circresaha.116.309493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2016] [Revised: 09/22/2016] [Accepted: 09/26/2016] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
Abstract
Rationale:
Data from animal models of hypertension indicate that high blood pressure may develop as a vital mechanism to maintain adequate blood flow to the brain. We propose that congenital vascular variants of the posterior cerebral circulation and cerebral hypoperfusion could partially explain the pathogenesis of essential hypertension, which remains enigmatic in 95% of patients.
Objective:
To evaluate the role of the cerebral circulation in the pathophysiology of hypertension.
Methods and Results:
We completed a series of retrospective and mechanistic case-control magnetic resonance imaging and physiological studies in normotensive and hypertensive humans (n=259). Interestingly, in humans with hypertension, we report a higher prevalence of congenital cerebrovascular variants; vertebral artery hypoplasia, and an incomplete posterior circle of Willis, which were coupled with increased cerebral vascular resistance, reduced cerebral blood flow, and a higher incidence of lacunar type infarcts. Causally, cerebral vascular resistance was elevated before the onset of hypertension and elevated sympathetic nerve activity (n=126). Interestingly, untreated hypertensive patients (n=20) had a cerebral blood flow similar to age-matched controls (n=28). However, participants receiving antihypertensive therapy (with blood pressure controlled below target levels) had reduced cerebral perfusion (n=19). Finally, elevated cerebral vascular resistance was a predictor of hypertension, suggesting that it may be a novel prognostic or diagnostic marker (n=126).
Conclusions:
Our data indicate that congenital cerebrovascular variants in the posterior circulation and the associated cerebral hypoperfusion may be a factor in triggering hypertension. Therefore, lowering blood pressure may worsen cerebral perfusion in susceptible individuals.
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- Esther A.H. Warnert
- From the Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, United Kingdom (E.A.H.W., R.G.W.); CardioNomics Research Group, Clinical Research and Imaging Centre (J.C.L.R., A.E.B., S.N., L.E.K.R., N.E.M., A.K.N., J.F.R.P., E.C.H.) and School of Physiology, Pharmacology, and Neuroscience, Biomedical Sciences (J.C.L.R., S.N., L.E.K.R., Z.A., J.F.R.P., E.C.H.), University of Bristol, United Kingdom; University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, United
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- From the Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, United Kingdom (E.A.H.W., R.G.W.); CardioNomics Research Group, Clinical Research and Imaging Centre (J.C.L.R., A.E.B., S.N., L.E.K.R., N.E.M., A.K.N., J.F.R.P., E.C.H.) and School of Physiology, Pharmacology, and Neuroscience, Biomedical Sciences (J.C.L.R., S.N., L.E.K.R., Z.A., J.F.R.P., E.C.H.), University of Bristol, United Kingdom; University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, United
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- From the Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, United Kingdom (E.A.H.W., R.G.W.); CardioNomics Research Group, Clinical Research and Imaging Centre (J.C.L.R., A.E.B., S.N., L.E.K.R., N.E.M., A.K.N., J.F.R.P., E.C.H.) and School of Physiology, Pharmacology, and Neuroscience, Biomedical Sciences (J.C.L.R., S.N., L.E.K.R., Z.A., J.F.R.P., E.C.H.), University of Bristol, United Kingdom; University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, United
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- From the Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, United Kingdom (E.A.H.W., R.G.W.); CardioNomics Research Group, Clinical Research and Imaging Centre (J.C.L.R., A.E.B., S.N., L.E.K.R., N.E.M., A.K.N., J.F.R.P., E.C.H.) and School of Physiology, Pharmacology, and Neuroscience, Biomedical Sciences (J.C.L.R., S.N., L.E.K.R., Z.A., J.F.R.P., E.C.H.), University of Bristol, United Kingdom; University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, United
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- From the Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, United Kingdom (E.A.H.W., R.G.W.); CardioNomics Research Group, Clinical Research and Imaging Centre (J.C.L.R., A.E.B., S.N., L.E.K.R., N.E.M., A.K.N., J.F.R.P., E.C.H.) and School of Physiology, Pharmacology, and Neuroscience, Biomedical Sciences (J.C.L.R., S.N., L.E.K.R., Z.A., J.F.R.P., E.C.H.), University of Bristol, United Kingdom; University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, United
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- From the Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, United Kingdom (E.A.H.W., R.G.W.); CardioNomics Research Group, Clinical Research and Imaging Centre (J.C.L.R., A.E.B., S.N., L.E.K.R., N.E.M., A.K.N., J.F.R.P., E.C.H.) and School of Physiology, Pharmacology, and Neuroscience, Biomedical Sciences (J.C.L.R., S.N., L.E.K.R., Z.A., J.F.R.P., E.C.H.), University of Bristol, United Kingdom; University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, United
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- From the Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, United Kingdom (E.A.H.W., R.G.W.); CardioNomics Research Group, Clinical Research and Imaging Centre (J.C.L.R., A.E.B., S.N., L.E.K.R., N.E.M., A.K.N., J.F.R.P., E.C.H.) and School of Physiology, Pharmacology, and Neuroscience, Biomedical Sciences (J.C.L.R., S.N., L.E.K.R., Z.A., J.F.R.P., E.C.H.), University of Bristol, United Kingdom; University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, United
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- From the Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, United Kingdom (E.A.H.W., R.G.W.); CardioNomics Research Group, Clinical Research and Imaging Centre (J.C.L.R., A.E.B., S.N., L.E.K.R., N.E.M., A.K.N., J.F.R.P., E.C.H.) and School of Physiology, Pharmacology, and Neuroscience, Biomedical Sciences (J.C.L.R., S.N., L.E.K.R., Z.A., J.F.R.P., E.C.H.), University of Bristol, United Kingdom; University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, United
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- From the Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, United Kingdom (E.A.H.W., R.G.W.); CardioNomics Research Group, Clinical Research and Imaging Centre (J.C.L.R., A.E.B., S.N., L.E.K.R., N.E.M., A.K.N., J.F.R.P., E.C.H.) and School of Physiology, Pharmacology, and Neuroscience, Biomedical Sciences (J.C.L.R., S.N., L.E.K.R., Z.A., J.F.R.P., E.C.H.), University of Bristol, United Kingdom; University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, United
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- From the Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, United Kingdom (E.A.H.W., R.G.W.); CardioNomics Research Group, Clinical Research and Imaging Centre (J.C.L.R., A.E.B., S.N., L.E.K.R., N.E.M., A.K.N., J.F.R.P., E.C.H.) and School of Physiology, Pharmacology, and Neuroscience, Biomedical Sciences (J.C.L.R., S.N., L.E.K.R., Z.A., J.F.R.P., E.C.H.), University of Bristol, United Kingdom; University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, United
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- From the Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, United Kingdom (E.A.H.W., R.G.W.); CardioNomics Research Group, Clinical Research and Imaging Centre (J.C.L.R., A.E.B., S.N., L.E.K.R., N.E.M., A.K.N., J.F.R.P., E.C.H.) and School of Physiology, Pharmacology, and Neuroscience, Biomedical Sciences (J.C.L.R., S.N., L.E.K.R., Z.A., J.F.R.P., E.C.H.), University of Bristol, United Kingdom; University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, United
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- From the Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, United Kingdom (E.A.H.W., R.G.W.); CardioNomics Research Group, Clinical Research and Imaging Centre (J.C.L.R., A.E.B., S.N., L.E.K.R., N.E.M., A.K.N., J.F.R.P., E.C.H.) and School of Physiology, Pharmacology, and Neuroscience, Biomedical Sciences (J.C.L.R., S.N., L.E.K.R., Z.A., J.F.R.P., E.C.H.), University of Bristol, United Kingdom; University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, United
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Yavagal DR, Atchaneeyasakul K. Cerebrovascular Variants in Posterior Circulation: A Potential Cause of Essential Hypertension. Circ Res 2016; 119:1267-1269. [PMID: 27932468 DOI: 10.1161/circresaha.116.310103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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- Dileep R Yavagal
- From the Department of Neurology (D.R.Y., K.A.) and Department of Neurological Surgery (D.R.Y.), University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, FL.
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- From the Department of Neurology (D.R.Y., K.A.) and Department of Neurological Surgery (D.R.Y.), University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, FL
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Roloff EVL, Tomiak‐Baquero AM, Kasparov S, Paton JFR. Parasympathetic innervation of vertebrobasilar arteries: is this a potential clinical target? J Physiol 2016; 594:6463-6485. [PMID: 27357059 PMCID: PMC5108906 DOI: 10.1113/jp272450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2016] [Accepted: 06/18/2016] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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This review aims to summarise the contemporary evidence for the presence and function of the parasympathetic innervation of the cerebral circulation with emphasis on the vertebral and basilar arteries (the posterior cerebral circulation). We consider whether the parasympathetic innervation of blood vessels could be used as a means to increase cerebral blood flow. This may have clinical implications for pathologies associated with cerebral hypoperfusion such as stroke, dementia and hypertension. Relative to the anterior cerebral circulation little is known of the origins and neurochemical phenotypes of the parasympathetic innervation of the vertebrobasilar arteries. These vessels normally provide blood flow to the brainstem and cerebellum but can, via the Circle of Willis upon stenosis of the internal carotid arteries, supply blood to the anterior cerebral circulation too. We review the multiple types of parasympathetic fibres and their distinct transmitter mechanisms and how these vary with age, disease and species. We highlight the importance of parasympathetic fibres for mediating the vasodilatory response to sympathetic activation. Current trials are investigating the possibility of electrically stimulating the postganglionic parasympathetic ganglia to improve cerebal blood flow to reduce the penumbra following stroke. We conclude that although there are substantial gaps in our understanding of the origins of parasympathetic innervation of the vertebrobasilar arteries, activation of this system under some conditions might bring therapeutic benefits.
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- Eva v. L. Roloff
- School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Biomedical SciencesUniversity of BristolBristolBS8 1TDUK
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- School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Biomedical SciencesUniversity of BristolBristolBS8 1TDUK
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- School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Biomedical SciencesUniversity of BristolBristolBS8 1TDUK
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- School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Biomedical SciencesUniversity of BristolBristolBS8 1TDUK
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Turlejski T, Humoud I, Desai R, Smith KJ, Marina N. Immunohistochemical evidence of tissue hypoxia and astrogliosis in the rostral ventrolateral medulla of spontaneously hypertensive rats. Brain Res 2016; 1650:178-183. [PMID: 27616338 PMCID: PMC5069925 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2016.09.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2016] [Revised: 09/06/2016] [Accepted: 09/07/2016] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Increased activity of the sympathetic nervous system has been highlighted as a key factor that contributes to the development and maintenance of arterial hypertension. However, the factors that precipitate sustained increases in sympathetic activity remain poorly understood. Resting tissue oxygen partial pressure (PtO2) in the brainstem of anesthetized spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs) has been shown to be lower than in normotensive rats despite normal levels of arterial PO2. A hypoxic environment in the brainstem has been postulated to activate astroglial signalling mechanisms in the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM) which in turn increase the excitability of presympathetic neuronal networks. In this study, we assessed the expression of indirect markers of tissue hypoxia and astroglial cell activation in the RVLM of SHRs and age-matched normotensive Wistar rats. Immunohistochemical labelling for hypoxia-induced factor-1α (HIF-1α) and bound pimonidazole adducts revealed the presence of tissue hypoxia in the RVLM of SHRs. Double immunostaining showed co-localization of bound pimonidazole labelling in putative presympathetic C1 neurons and in astroglial cells. Quantification of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) immunofluorescence showed relatively higher number of astrocytes and increased GFAP mean grey value density, whilst semi-quantitative analysis of skeletonized GFAP-immunoreactive processes revealed greater % area covered by astrocytic processes in the RVLM of adult SHRs. In conclusion, the morphological findings of tissue hypoxia and astrogliosis within brainstem presympathetic neuronal networks in the SHR support previous observations, showing that low brainstem PtO2 and increased astroglial signalling in the RVLM play an important role in pathological sympathoexcitation associated with the development of arterial hypertension. The rostral ventrolateral medulla of spontaneously hypertensive rats is hypoxic. Indirect markers of hypoxia were found in pre-sympathetic neurons and astrocytes. Astrogliosis is present in the rostral ventrolateral medulla of hypertensive rats.
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- Tymoteusz Turlejski
- Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London, UK; UCL Centre for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Neuroscience University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London, UK; UCL Centre for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Neuroscience University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Department of Neuroinflammation, Institute of Neurology, University College London, UK
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- Department of Neuroinflammation, Institute of Neurology, University College London, UK
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- Clinical Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Division of Medicine, University College London, UK; UCL Centre for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Neuroscience University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
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Nukada H, Baba M, Ogasawara S, McMorran D, Yagihashi S. Neuropathy in the spontaneously hypertensive rat: An electrophysiological and histological study. Muscle Nerve 2016; 54:756-62. [PMID: 26970072 DOI: 10.1002/mus.25098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2014] [Revised: 02/24/2016] [Accepted: 03/03/2016] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Hypertension is identified as a risk factor for development of polyneuropathy. In this study we examined nerve conduction and morphological alteration of peripheral nerves in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR). METHODS Motor nerve conduction velocity (MNCV) in the sciatic-tibial nerve and sensory nerve conduction velocity (SNCV) in the sural nerve were measured. Pathological investigations included spinal cord, dorsal root ganglion, and hindlimb nerves in SHR and Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKY) aged 4-64 weeks. RESULTS Blood pressure was significantly higher in SHR than WKY animals at 4 weeks and elevated further with aging. MNCV and SNCV were significantly slower in SHR compared with WKY after age 24 weeks. Prominent morphological changes in SHR nerves included axonal atrophy and myelin splitting. SHR also had endoneurial microangiopathy with reduplication of basement membrane. CONCLUSIONS SHR showed slowed nerve conduction velocity and pathological abnormalities of hindlimb nerves. Sustained severe hypertension may cause axonal atrophy and endoneurial microangiopathy. Muscle Nerve 54: 756-762, 2016.
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- Hitoshi Nukada
- The Nukada Institute for Medical & Biological Research, 5-18 Inage-machi, Inage-ku, Chiba, 263-0035, Japan. .,Department of Medicine, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
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- Department of Neurology, Aomori Prefectural Central Hospital, Aomori, Japan
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- Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Hirosaki University, Hirosaki, Japan
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- Department of Medicine, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Hirosaki University, Hirosaki, Japan
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Koeners MP, Lewis KE, Ford AP, Paton JF. Hypertension: a problem of organ blood flow supply-demand mismatch. Future Cardiol 2016; 12:339-49. [PMID: 27091483 PMCID: PMC4926521 DOI: 10.2217/fca.16.5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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This review introduces a new hypothesis that sympathetically mediated hypertensive diseases are caused, in the most part, by the activation of visceral afferent systems that are connected to neural circuits generating sympathetic activity. We consider how organ hypoperfusion and blood flow supply–demand mismatch might lead to both sensory hyper-reflexia and aberrant afferent tonicity. We discuss how this may drive sympatho-excitatory-positive feedback and extend across multiple organs initiating, or at least amplifying, sympathetic hyperactivity. The latter, in turn, compounds the challenge to sufficient organ blood flow through heightened vasoconstriction that both maintains and exacerbates hypertension.
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- Maarten P Koeners
- School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience, Biomedical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience, Biomedical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Afferent Pharmaceuticals, 2929 Campus Drive, San Mateo, CA, USA
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- School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience, Biomedical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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Marina N, Teschemacher AG, Kasparov S, Gourine AV. Glia, sympathetic activity and cardiovascular disease. Exp Physiol 2016; 101:565-76. [PMID: 26988631 PMCID: PMC5031202 DOI: 10.1113/ep085713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2016] [Accepted: 03/10/2016] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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NEW FINDINGS What is the topic of this review? In this review, we discuss recent findings that provide a novel insight into the mechanisms that link glial cell function with the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease, including systemic arterial hypertension and chronic heart failure. What advances does it highlight? We discuss how glial cells may influence central presympathetic circuits, leading to maladaptive and detrimental increases in sympathetic activity and contributing to the development and progression of cardiovascular disease. Increased activity of the sympathetic nervous system is associated with the development of cardiovascular disease and may contribute to its progression. Vasomotor and cardiac sympathetic activities are generated by the neuronal circuits located in the hypothalamus and the brainstem. These neuronal networks receive multiple inputs from the periphery and other parts of the CNS and, at a local level, may be influenced by their non-neuronal neighbours, in particular glial cells. In this review, we discuss recent experimental evidence suggesting that astrocytes and microglial cells are able to modulate the activity of sympathoexcitatory neural networks in disparate physiological and pathophysiological conditions. We focus on the chemosensory properties of astrocytes residing in the rostral ventrolateral medulla oblongata and discuss signalling mechanisms leading to glial activation during brain hypoxia and inflammation. Alterations in these mechanisms may lead to heightened activity of sympathoexcitatory CNS circuits and contribute to maladaptive and detrimental increases in sympathetic tone associated with systemic arterial hypertension and chronic heart failure.
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- Nephtali Marina
- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, University College London, London, WC1E 6JF, UK
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- School of Physiology and Pharmacology, Medical Sciences Building, Bristol Heart Institute, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TD, UK
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- School of Physiology and Pharmacology, Medical Sciences Building, Bristol Heart Institute, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TD, UK
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- Centre for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Neuroscience, Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
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Johnson AK, Zhang Z, Clayton SC, Beltz TG, Hurley SW, Thunhorst RL, Xue B. The roles of sensitization and neuroplasticity in the long-term regulation of blood pressure and hypertension. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2015; 309:R1309-25. [PMID: 26290101 PMCID: PMC4698407 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00037.2015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2015] [Accepted: 05/18/2015] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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After decades of investigation, the causes of essential hypertension remain obscure. The contribution of the nervous system has been excluded by some on the basis that baroreceptor mechanisms maintain blood pressure only over the short term. However, this point of view ignores one of the most powerful contributions of the brain in maintaining biological fitness-specifically, the ability to promote adaptation of behavioral and physiological responses to cope with new challenges and maintain this new capacity through processes involving neuroplasticity. We present a body of recent findings demonstrating that prior, short-term challenges can induce persistent changes in the central nervous system to result in an enhanced blood pressure response to hypertension-eliciting stimuli. This sensitized hypertensinogenic state is maintained in the absence of the inducing stimuli, and it is accompanied by sustained upregulation of components of the brain renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system and other molecular changes recognized to be associated with central nervous system neuroplasticity. Although the heritability of hypertension is high, it is becoming increasingly clear that factors beyond just genes contribute to the etiology of this disease. Life experiences and attendant changes in cellular and molecular components in the neural network controlling sympathetic tone can enhance the hypertensive response to recurrent, sustained, or new stressors. Although the epigenetic mechanisms that allow the brain to be reprogrammed in the face of challenges to cardiovascular homeostasis can be adaptive, this capacity can also be maladaptive under conditions present in different evolutionary eras or ontogenetic periods.
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- Alan Kim Johnson
- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; Department of Health and Human Physiology, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; Department of Pharmacology, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; François M. Abboud Cardiovascular Center, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; and
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; Nanyang Institute of Technology, Zhang Zhongjing College of Chinese Medicine, Nanyang, Henan Province, China
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; François M. Abboud Cardiovascular Center, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; and
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; François M. Abboud Cardiovascular Center, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; and
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Marina N, Ang R, Machhada A, Kasymov V, Karagiannis A, Hosford PS, Mosienko V, Teschemacher AG, Vihko P, Paton JFR, Kasparov S, Gourine AV. Brainstem hypoxia contributes to the development of hypertension in the spontaneously hypertensive rat. Hypertension 2015; 65:775-83. [PMID: 25712724 PMCID: PMC4354460 DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.114.04683] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2014] [Accepted: 02/02/2015] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Systemic arterial hypertension has been previously suggested to develop as a compensatory condition when central nervous perfusion/oxygenation is compromised. Principal sympathoexcitatory C1 neurons of the rostral ventrolateral medulla oblongata (whose activation increases sympathetic drive and the arterial blood pressure) are highly sensitive to hypoxia, but the mechanisms of this O2 sensitivity remain unknown. Here, we investigated potential mechanisms linking brainstem hypoxia and high systemic arterial blood pressure in the spontaneously hypertensive rat. Brainstem parenchymal PO2 in the spontaneously hypertensive rat was found to be ≈15 mm Hg lower than in the normotensive Wistar rat at the same level of arterial oxygenation and systemic arterial blood pressure. Hypoxia-induced activation of rostral ventrolateral medulla oblongata neurons was suppressed in the presence of either an ATP receptor antagonist MRS2179 or a glycogenolysis inhibitor 1,4-dideoxy-1,4-imino-d-arabinitol, suggesting that sensitivity of these neurons to low PO2 is mediated by actions of extracellular ATP and lactate. Brainstem hypoxia triggers release of lactate and ATP which produce excitation of C1 neurons in vitro and increases sympathetic nerve activity and arterial blood pressure in vivo. Facilitated breakdown of extracellular ATP in the rostral ventrolateral medulla oblongata by virally-driven overexpression of a potent ectonucleotidase transmembrane prostatic acid phosphatase results in a significant reduction in the arterial blood pressure in the spontaneously hypertensive rats (but not in normotensive animals). These results suggest that in the spontaneously hypertensive rat, lower PO2 of brainstem parenchyma may be associated with higher levels of ambient ATP and l-lactate within the presympathetic circuits, leading to increased central sympathetic drive and concomitant sustained increases in systemic arterial blood pressure.
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- Nephtali Marina
- From the Centre for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Neuroscience (N.M., R.A., A.M., V.K., A.K., P.S.H., A.V.G.), Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (N.M., P.S.H.), and Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology (R.A., A.M., V.K., A.K., A.V.G.), University College London, London, United Kingdom; School of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom (V.M., A.G.T., J.F.R.P., S.K.); and Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland (P.V.).
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- From the Centre for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Neuroscience (N.M., R.A., A.M., V.K., A.K., P.S.H., A.V.G.), Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (N.M., P.S.H.), and Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology (R.A., A.M., V.K., A.K., A.V.G.), University College London, London, United Kingdom; School of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom (V.M., A.G.T., J.F.R.P., S.K.); and Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland (P.V.)
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- From the Centre for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Neuroscience (N.M., R.A., A.M., V.K., A.K., P.S.H., A.V.G.), Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (N.M., P.S.H.), and Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology (R.A., A.M., V.K., A.K., A.V.G.), University College London, London, United Kingdom; School of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom (V.M., A.G.T., J.F.R.P., S.K.); and Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland (P.V.)
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- From the Centre for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Neuroscience (N.M., R.A., A.M., V.K., A.K., P.S.H., A.V.G.), Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (N.M., P.S.H.), and Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology (R.A., A.M., V.K., A.K., A.V.G.), University College London, London, United Kingdom; School of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom (V.M., A.G.T., J.F.R.P., S.K.); and Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland (P.V.)
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- From the Centre for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Neuroscience (N.M., R.A., A.M., V.K., A.K., P.S.H., A.V.G.), Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (N.M., P.S.H.), and Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology (R.A., A.M., V.K., A.K., A.V.G.), University College London, London, United Kingdom; School of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom (V.M., A.G.T., J.F.R.P., S.K.); and Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland (P.V.)
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- From the Centre for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Neuroscience (N.M., R.A., A.M., V.K., A.K., P.S.H., A.V.G.), Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (N.M., P.S.H.), and Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology (R.A., A.M., V.K., A.K., A.V.G.), University College London, London, United Kingdom; School of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom (V.M., A.G.T., J.F.R.P., S.K.); and Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland (P.V.)
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- From the Centre for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Neuroscience (N.M., R.A., A.M., V.K., A.K., P.S.H., A.V.G.), Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (N.M., P.S.H.), and Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology (R.A., A.M., V.K., A.K., A.V.G.), University College London, London, United Kingdom; School of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom (V.M., A.G.T., J.F.R.P., S.K.); and Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland (P.V.)
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- From the Centre for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Neuroscience (N.M., R.A., A.M., V.K., A.K., P.S.H., A.V.G.), Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (N.M., P.S.H.), and Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology (R.A., A.M., V.K., A.K., A.V.G.), University College London, London, United Kingdom; School of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom (V.M., A.G.T., J.F.R.P., S.K.); and Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland (P.V.)
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- From the Centre for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Neuroscience (N.M., R.A., A.M., V.K., A.K., P.S.H., A.V.G.), Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (N.M., P.S.H.), and Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology (R.A., A.M., V.K., A.K., A.V.G.), University College London, London, United Kingdom; School of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom (V.M., A.G.T., J.F.R.P., S.K.); and Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland (P.V.)
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- From the Centre for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Neuroscience (N.M., R.A., A.M., V.K., A.K., P.S.H., A.V.G.), Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (N.M., P.S.H.), and Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology (R.A., A.M., V.K., A.K., A.V.G.), University College London, London, United Kingdom; School of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom (V.M., A.G.T., J.F.R.P., S.K.); and Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland (P.V.)
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- From the Centre for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Neuroscience (N.M., R.A., A.M., V.K., A.K., P.S.H., A.V.G.), Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (N.M., P.S.H.), and Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology (R.A., A.M., V.K., A.K., A.V.G.), University College London, London, United Kingdom; School of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom (V.M., A.G.T., J.F.R.P., S.K.); and Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland (P.V.)
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- From the Centre for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Neuroscience (N.M., R.A., A.M., V.K., A.K., P.S.H., A.V.G.), Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (N.M., P.S.H.), and Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology (R.A., A.M., V.K., A.K., A.V.G.), University College London, London, United Kingdom; School of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom (V.M., A.G.T., J.F.R.P., S.K.); and Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland (P.V.).
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Charkoudian N, Wallin BG. Sympathetic neural activity to the cardiovascular system: integrator of systemic physiology and interindividual characteristics. Compr Physiol 2014; 4:825-50. [PMID: 24715570 DOI: 10.1002/cphy.c130038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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The sympathetic nervous system is a ubiquitous, integrating controller of myriad physiological functions. In the present article, we review the physiology of sympathetic neural control of cardiovascular function with a focus on integrative mechanisms in humans. Direct measurement of sympathetic neural activity (SNA) in humans can be accomplished using microneurography, most commonly performed in the peroneal (fibular) nerve. In humans, muscle SNA (MSNA) is composed of vasoconstrictor fibers; its best-recognized characteristic is its participation in transient, moment-to-moment control of arterial blood pressure via the arterial baroreflex. This property of MSNA contributes to its typical "bursting" pattern which is strongly linked to the cardiac cycle. Recent evidence suggests that sympathetic neural mechanisms and the baroreflex have important roles in the long term control of blood pressure as well. One of the striking characteristics of MSNA is its large interindividual variability. However, in young, normotensive humans, higher MSNA is not linked to higher blood pressure due to balancing influences of other cardiovascular variables. In men, an inverse relationship between MSNA and cardiac output is a major factor in this balance, whereas in women, beta-adrenergic vasodilation offsets the vasoconstrictor/pressor effects of higher MSNA. As people get older (and in people with hypertension) higher MSNA is more likely to be linked to higher blood pressure. Skin SNA (SSNA) can also be measured in humans, although interpretation of SSNA signals is complicated by multiple types of neurons involved (vasoconstrictor, vasodilator, sudomotor and pilomotor). In addition to blood pressure regulation, the sympathetic nervous system contributes to cardiovascular regulation during numerous other reflexes, including those involved in exercise, thermoregulation, chemoreflex regulation, and responses to mental stress.
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- N Charkoudian
- U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Natick, Massachusetts
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Shi P, Grobe JL, Desland FA, Zhou G, Shen XZ, Shan Z, Liu M, Raizada MK, Sumners C. Direct pro-inflammatory effects of prorenin on microglia. PLoS One 2014; 9:e92937. [PMID: 25302502 PMCID: PMC4193744 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092937] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2014] [Accepted: 08/19/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Neuroinflammation has been implicated in hypertension, and microglia have been proposed to play an important role in the progression of this disease. Here, we have studied whether microglia are activated within cardiovascular regulatory area(s) of the brain during hypertension, especially in high blood pressure that is associated with chronic activation of the renin-angiotensin-system. In addition, we determined whether prorenin, an essential component of the renin-angiotensin-system, exerts direct pro-inflammatory effects on these microglia. Our data indicate that two rodent models which display neurogenic hypertension and over activation of the renin-angiotensin-system in the brain (sRA mice and spontaneously hypertensive rats) exhibit microglial activation, and increased levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines, in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus, an area crucial for regulation of sympathetic outflow. Further, the renin-angiotensin-system component prorenin elicits direct activation of hypothalamic microglia in culture and induction of pro-inflammatory mechanisms in these cells, effects that involve prorenin receptor-induced NFκB activation. In addition, the prorenin-elicited increases in cytokine expression were fully abolished by microglial inhibitor minocycline, and were potentiated by pre-treatment of cells with angiotensin II. Taken together with our previous data which indicate that pro-inflammatory processes in the paraventricular nucleus are involved in the hypertensive action of renin-angiotensin-system, the novel discovery that prorenin exerts direct stimulatory effects on microglial activation and pro-inflammatory cytokine production provides support for the idea that renin-angiotensin-system -induced neurogenic hypertension is not restricted to actions of angiotensin II alone.
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- Peng Shi
- Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Department of Neurology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- Department of Pharmacology, Roy J & Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
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- Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
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- Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
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- Department of Biomedical Science, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Department of Kinesiology and Integrative Physiology, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, United States of America
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- Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
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- Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
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- Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
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Moraes DJA, Machado BH, Paton JFR. Specific Respiratory Neuron Types Have Increased Excitability That Drive Presympathetic Neurones in Neurogenic Hypertension. Hypertension 2014; 63:1309-18. [DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.113.02283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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- Davi J. A. Moraes
- From the School of Physiology and Pharmacology, Bristol Heart Institute, Medical Sciences Building, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TD, England (D.J.A.M., J.F.R.P.); and Department of Physiology, School of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, 14049–900, SP, Brazil (D.J.A.M., B.H.M.)
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- From the School of Physiology and Pharmacology, Bristol Heart Institute, Medical Sciences Building, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TD, England (D.J.A.M., J.F.R.P.); and Department of Physiology, School of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, 14049–900, SP, Brazil (D.J.A.M., B.H.M.)
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- From the School of Physiology and Pharmacology, Bristol Heart Institute, Medical Sciences Building, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TD, England (D.J.A.M., J.F.R.P.); and Department of Physiology, School of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, 14049–900, SP, Brazil (D.J.A.M., B.H.M.)
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Kontaraki JE, Marketou ME, Zacharis EA, Parthenakis FI, Vardas PE. MicroRNA-9 and microRNA-126 expression levels in patients with essential hypertension: potential markers of target-organ damage. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2014; 8:368-75. [PMID: 24794206 DOI: 10.1016/j.jash.2014.03.324] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2014] [Revised: 03/21/2014] [Accepted: 03/21/2014] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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MicroRNAs (miRs), as essential gene expression regulators, modulate cardiovascular development and disease and thus they are emerging as potential biomarkers and therapeutic targets in cardiovascular disease, including hypertension. We assessed the expression levels of the microRNAs miR-9 and miR-126 in 60 patients with untreated essential hypertension and 29 healthy individuals. All patients underwent two-dimensional echocardiography and 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. MicroRNA expression levels in peripheral blood mononuclear cells were quantified by real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction. Hypertensive patients showed significantly lower miR-9 (9.69 ± 1.56 vs 41.08 ± 6.06; P < .001) and miR-126 (3.88 ± 0.47 vs 8.96 ± 1.69; P < .001) expression levels compared with healthy controls. In hypertensive patients, miR-9 expression levels showed a significant positive correlation (r = 0.437; P < .001) with left ventricular mass index. Furthermore, both miR-9 (r = 0.312; P = .015) and miR-126 (r = 0.441; P < .001) expression levels in hypertensive patients showed significant positive correlations with the 24-hour mean pulse pressure. Our data reveal that miR-9 and miR-126 are closely related to essential hypertension in humans, as they show a distinct expression profile in hypertensive patients relative to healthy individuals, and they are associated with clinical prognostic indices of hypertensive target-organ damage in hypertensive patients. Thus, they may possibly represent potential biomarkers and candidate therapeutic targets in essential hypertension.
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- Joanna E Kontaraki
- Molecular Cardiology Laboratory, School of Medicine, University of Crete, Greece.
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- Department of Cardiology, Heraklion University Hospital, Crete, Greece
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- Department of Cardiology, Heraklion University Hospital, Crete, Greece
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How JMY, Wardak SA, Ameer SI, Davey RA, Sartor DM. Blunted sympathoinhibitory responses in obesity-related hypertension are due to aberrant central but not peripheral signalling mechanisms. J Physiol 2014; 592:1705-20. [PMID: 24492842 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2013.269670] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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The gut hormone cholecystokinin (CCK) acts at subdiaphragmatic vagal afferents to induce renal and splanchnic sympathoinhibition and vasodilatation, via reflex inhibition of a subclass of cardiovascular-controlling neurons in the rostroventrolateral medulla (RVLM). These sympathoinhibitory and vasodilator responses are blunted in obese, hypertensive rats and our aim in the present study was to determine whether this is attributable to (i) altered sensitivity of presympathetic vasomotor RVLM neurons, and (ii) aberrant peripheral or central signalling mechanisms. Using a diet-induced obesity model, male Sprague-Dawley rats exhibited either an obesity-prone (OP) or obesity-resistant (OR) phenotype when placed on a medium high fat diet for 13-15 weeks; control animals were placed on a low fat diet. OP animals had elevated resting arterial pressure compared to OR/control animals (P < 0.05). Barosensitivity of RVLM neurons was significantly attenuated in OP animals (P < 0.05), suggesting altered baroreflex gain. CCK induced inhibitory responses in RVLM neurons of OR/control animals but not OP animals. Subdiaphragmatic vagal nerve responsiveness to CCK and CCK1 receptor mRNA expression in nodose ganglia did not differ between the groups, but CCK induced significantly less Fos-like immunoreactivity in both the nucleus of the solitary tract and the caudal ventrolateral medulla of OP animals compared to controls (P < 0.05). These results suggest that blunted sympathoinhibitory and vasodilator responses in obesity-related hypertension are due to alterations in RVLM neuronal responses, resulting from aberrant central but not peripheral signalling mechanisms. In obesity, blunted sympathoinhibitory mechanisms may lead to increased regional vascular resistance and contribute to the development of hypertension.
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Biancardi VC, Son SJ, Ahmadi S, Filosa JA, Stern JE. Circulating angiotensin II gains access to the hypothalamus and brain stem during hypertension via breakdown of the blood-brain barrier. Hypertension 2013; 63:572-9. [PMID: 24343120 DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.113.01743] [Citation(s) in RCA: 182] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Angiotensin II-mediated vascular brain inflammation emerged as a novel pathophysiological mechanism in neurogenic hypertension. However, the precise underlying mechanisms and functional consequences in relation to blood-brain barrier (BBB) integrity and central angiotensin II actions mediating neurohumoral activation in hypertension are poorly understood. Here, we aimed to determine whether BBB permeability within critical hypothalamic and brain stem regions involved in neurohumoral regulation was altered during hypertension. Using digital imaging quantification after intravascularly injected fluorescent dyes and immunohistochemistry, we found increased BBB permeability, along with altered key BBB protein constituents, in spontaneously hypertensive rats within the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus, the nucleus of the solitary tract, and the rostral ventrolateral medulla, all critical brain regions known to contribute to neurohumoral activation during hypertension. BBB disruption, including increased permeability and downregulation of constituent proteins, was prevented in spontaneously hypertensive rats treated with the AT1 receptor antagonist losartan, but not with hydralazine, a direct vasodilator. Importantly, we found circulating angiotensin II to extravasate into these brain regions, colocalizing with neurons and microglial cells. Taken together, our studies reveal a novel angiotensin II-mediated feed-forward mechanism during hypertension, by which circulating angiotensin II evokes increased BBB permeability, facilitating in turn its access to critical brain regions known to participate in blood pressure regulation.
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Burnstock G, Ralevic V. Purinergic signaling and blood vessels in health and disease. Pharmacol Rev 2013; 66:102-92. [PMID: 24335194 DOI: 10.1124/pr.113.008029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 219] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Purinergic signaling plays important roles in control of vascular tone and remodeling. There is dual control of vascular tone by ATP released as a cotransmitter with noradrenaline from perivascular sympathetic nerves to cause vasoconstriction via P2X1 receptors, whereas ATP released from endothelial cells in response to changes in blood flow (producing shear stress) or hypoxia acts on P2X and P2Y receptors on endothelial cells to produce nitric oxide and endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factor, which dilates vessels. ATP is also released from sensory-motor nerves during antidromic reflex activity to produce relaxation of some blood vessels. In this review, we stress the differences in neural and endothelial factors in purinergic control of different blood vessels. The long-term (trophic) actions of purine and pyrimidine nucleosides and nucleotides in promoting migration and proliferation of both vascular smooth muscle and endothelial cells via P1 and P2Y receptors during angiogenesis and vessel remodeling during restenosis after angioplasty are described. The pathophysiology of blood vessels and therapeutic potential of purinergic agents in diseases, including hypertension, atherosclerosis, ischemia, thrombosis and stroke, diabetes, and migraine, is discussed.
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- Geoffrey Burnstock
- Autonomic Neuroscience Centre, University College Medical School, Rowland Hill Street, London NW3 2PF, UK; and Department of Pharmacology, The University of Melbourne, Australia.
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Increased sympathetic drive during the onset of hypertension in conscious Cyp1a1-Ren2 rats. Pflugers Arch 2013; 466:459-66. [DOI: 10.1007/s00424-013-1338-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2013] [Revised: 08/06/2013] [Accepted: 08/14/2013] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Santisteban MM, Zubcevic J, Baekey DM, Raizada MK. Dysfunctional brain-bone marrow communication: a paradigm shift in the pathophysiology of hypertension. Curr Hypertens Rep 2013; 15:377-89. [PMID: 23715920 PMCID: PMC3714364 DOI: 10.1007/s11906-013-0361-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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It is widely accepted that the pathophysiology of hypertension involves autonomic nervous system dysfunction, as well as a multitude of immune responses. However, the close interplay of these systems in the development and establishment of high blood pressure and its associated pathophysiology remains elusive and is the subject of extensive investigation. It has been proposed that an imbalance of the neuro-immune systems is a result of an enhancement of the "proinflammatory sympathetic" arm in conjunction with dampening of the "anti-inflammatory parasympathetic" arm of the autonomic nervous system. In addition to the neuronal modulation of the immune system, it is proposed that key inflammatory responses are relayed back to the central nervous system and alter the neuronal communication to the periphery. The overall objective of this review is to critically discuss recent advances in the understanding of autonomic immune modulation, and propose a unifying hypothesis underlying the mechanisms leading to the development and maintenance of hypertension, with particular emphasis on the bone marrow, as it is a crucial meeting point for neural, immune, and vascular networks.
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- Monica M. Santisteban
- Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, University of Florida, College of Medicine. 1600 SW Archer Road, PO Box 100274, Gainesville, FL 32610
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- Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, University of Florida, College of Medicine. 1600 SW Archer Road, PO Box 100274, Gainesville, FL 32610
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- Department of Physiological Sciences, University of Florida, College of Veterinary Medicine. 1600 SW Archer Road, PO Box 100144, Gainesville, FL 32610
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- Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, University of Florida, College of Medicine. 1600 SW Archer Road, PO Box 100274, Gainesville, FL 32610
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Hart EC, McBryde FD, Burchell AE, Ratcliffe LEK, Stewart LQ, Baumbach A, Nightingale A, Paton JFR. Translational examination of changes in baroreflex function after renal denervation in hypertensive rats and humans. Hypertension 2013; 62:533-41. [PMID: 23817496 DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.113.01261] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Renal denervation has shown promise in the treatment of resistant hypertension, although the mechanisms underlying the blood pressure (BP) reduction remain unclear. In a translational study of spontaneously hypertensive rats (n=7, surgical denervation) and resistant hypertensive human patients (n=8; 5 men, 33-71 years), we examined the relationship among changes in BP, sympathetic nerve activity, and cardiac and sympathetic baroreflex function after renal denervation. In humans, mean systolic BP (SBP; sphygmomanometry) and muscle sympathetic nerve activity (microneurography) were unchanged at 1 and 6 months after renal denervation (P<0.05). Interestingly, 4 of 8 patients showed a 10% decrease in SBP at 6 months, but sympathetic activity did not necessarily change in parallel with SBP. In contrast, all rats showed significant and immediate decreases in telemetric SBP and lumbar sympathetic activity (P<0.05), 7 days after denervation. Despite no change in SBP, human cardiac and sympathetic baroreflex function (sequence and threshold techniques) showed improvements at 1 and 6 months after denervation, particularly through increased sympathetic baroreflex sensitivity to falling BP. This was mirrored in spontaneously hypertensive rats; cardiac and sympathetic baroreflex sensitivity (spontaneous sequence and the Oxford technique) improved 7 days after denervation. The more consistent results in rats may be because of a more complete (>90% reduction in renal norepinephrine content) denervation. We conclude that (1) renal denervation improves BP in some patients, but sympathetic activity does not always change in parallel, and (2) baroreflex sensitivity is consistently improved in animals and humans, even when SBP has not decreased. Determining procedural success will be crucial in advancing this treatment modality.
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- Emma C Hart
- School of Physiology and Pharmacology, Bristol Heart Institute, Medical Science Bldg, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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Guyenet PG, Stornetta RL, Bochorishvili G, Depuy SD, Burke PGR, Abbott SBG. C1 neurons: the body's EMTs. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2013; 305:R187-204. [PMID: 23697799 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00054.2013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 197] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The C1 neurons reside in the rostral and intermediate portions of the ventrolateral medulla (RVLM, IVLM). They use glutamate as a fast transmitter and synthesize catecholamines plus various neuropeptides. These neurons regulate the hypothalamic pituitary axis via direct projections to the paraventricular nucleus and regulate the autonomic nervous system via projections to sympathetic and parasympathetic preganglionic neurons. The presympathetic C1 cells, located in the RVLM, are probably organized in a roughly viscerotopic manner and most of them regulate the circulation. C1 cells are variously activated by hypoglycemia, infection or inflammation, hypoxia, nociception, and hypotension and contribute to most glucoprivic responses. C1 cells also stimulate breathing and activate brain stem noradrenergic neurons including the locus coeruleus. Based on the various effects attributed to the C1 cells, their axonal projections and what is currently known of their synaptic inputs, subsets of C1 cells appear to be differentially recruited by pain, hypoxia, infection/inflammation, hemorrhage, and hypoglycemia to produce a repertoire of stereotyped autonomic, metabolic, and neuroendocrine responses that help the organism survive physical injury and its associated cohort of acute infection, hypoxia, hypotension, and blood loss. C1 cells may also contribute to glucose and cardiovascular homeostasis in the absence of such physical stresses, and C1 cell hyperactivity may contribute to the increase in sympathetic nerve activity associated with diseases such as hypertension.
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- Patrice G Guyenet
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908-0735, USA.
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