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Brain Transforming Growth Factor-β Resists Hypertension Via Regulating Microglial Activation
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Brain Transforming Growth Factor-β Resists Hypertension Via Regulating Microglial Activation

You Li, Xiao Z Shen, Liang Li, Tuantuan V Zhao, Kenneth E Bernstein, Alan K Johnson, Patrick Lyden, Jianmin Fang and Peng Shi
Stroke (1970), Vol.48(9), pp.2557-2564
09/2017
DOI: 10.1161/strokeaha.117.017370
PMCID: PMC5575981
PMID: 28698257
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https://doi.org/10.1161/strokeaha.117.017370View
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Abstract

Hypertension is the major risk factor for stroke. Recent work unveiled that hypertension is associated with chronic neuroinflammation; microglia are the major players in neuroinflammation, and the activated microglia elevate sympathetic nerve activity and blood pressure. This study is to understand how brain homeostasis is kept from hypertensive disturbance and microglial activation at the onset of hypertension.
Flow Cytometry Immunohistochemistry Signal Transduction Blood Pressure - immunology Transcriptome Male CD11b Antigen Vasoconstrictor Agents - toxicity Adoptive Transfer Brain - metabolism Transforming Growth Factor beta1 - immunology Kidney - metabolism Microglia - immunology Hypertension - chemically induced Sympathetic Nervous System Blood Pressure - drug effects Hypertension - genetics Angiotensin II - toxicity Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction Transforming Growth Factor beta1 - pharmacology Kidney - drug effects Microglia - drug effects Brain - physiopathology Mice, Inbred C57BL Hypertension - immunology Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction Hypertension - physiopathology Brain - drug effects Heparin-binding EGF-like Growth Factor Animals Norepinephrine - metabolism Diphtheria Toxin Mice Brain - immunology

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