The sympathetic nervous system and hypertension - Recent developments
The sympathetic nervous system and hypertension - Recent developments
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DOI:
10.1161/01.hyp.0000113047.47711.fa
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2004-02-01
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8.3
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DiBona, GF
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DiBona, GF
carotid baroreceptors led to an immediate and sustained 7-day increase in arterial pressure in association with increases in heart rate and plasma renin activity and decreases in urinary sodium excretion, reflecting sustained increases in sympathetic nerve activity (with little to no resetting) to heart and kidneys. 9 When hypertension was produced by 5 days of angiotensin II infusion, urinary sodium excretion from the innervated kidney increased compared with that from the denervated kidney. 10 The suggestion that this was caused by an arterial baroreflex-induced sustained decrease in RSNA (with little to no resetting) and was confirmed by the finding that sinoaortic denervation decreased urinary sodium excretion from the innervated kidney. The ability of the arterial baroreflex to produce even longer sustained decreases in RSNA (with little to no resetting) was demonstrated by the fact that urinary sodium excretion from the innervated kidney remained increased throughout a 10-day pressor infusion of angiotensin. 11 Collectively, these studies provided indirect evidence that alterations in RSNA in response to unloading or loading of arterial baroreceptors can be sustained for prolonged periods of time. This supports the suggestion that arterial baroreflex control of RSNA, and thus overall renal excretory function, contribute importantly to the long-term regulation of arterial pressure. Direct recording of RSNA in conscious rabbits infused with angiotensin II for 7 days unambiguously support this view. 12 The sustained increase of 18 mmHg in arterial pressure was accompanied by a sustained decrease in RSNA, which was reduced by 56% and 50% on days 2 and 7 of angiotensin II infusion, respectively. Moreover, the arterial baroreflex relationship between arterial pressure and RSNA was not reset (no shift to either lower or higher arterial pressure) on either day 2 or day 7 of angiotensin II infusion. Compared with the basal state, the range of the arterial baroreflex was reduced, the gain was not changed, and the resting point was moved from the steepest part of the curve to the lower plateau portion of the curve. Thus, during angiotensin II infusion, further increases in arterial pressure from the resting point did not produce further decreases in RSNA. Overall, it appears that suppression of RSNA serves a compensatory role in decreasing the magnitude of the hypertension by increasing renal excretory function and shifting the pressure natriuresis relationship to a lower arterial pressure. These results clearly demonstrate that arterial baroreflexes regulate RSNA during long-term changes in arterial pressure and suggest that arterial baroreflex control of RSNA, and thus overall renal excretory function, is critical in the short-term and long-term regulation of arterial pressure. Thus, defective arterial baroreflex control of RSNA and overall renal excretory function could contribute to altered regulation of arterial pressure. In support of this are the findings in rats that arterial baroreceptor denervation (1) impairs the ability to establish sodium balance during lowsodium dietary intake and high-sodium dietary intake and that chronic sinoaortic denervation is exhibited and (2) leads to the development of increased arterial pressure during highsodium dietary intake in association with increased renal sodium retention. 13It appears that arterial baroreflex-mediated suppression of RSNA is present in other forms of hypertension, also. Chronic nitric oxide synthase blockade with L-NAME in rabbits with sinoaortic denervation failed to produce a chronic sustained increase in arterial pressure. 14 These results confirm that arterial baroreflexes are importantly involved in the long-term …