Immune Modulation of Blood Pressure and Vice Versa

Nonfunded Featured Topic — Wednesday, April 25, 2018 — 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM — Convention Center, Room 24
Water and Electrolyte Homeostasis Section — Chair: Michael J. Ryan — Co-Chair: Hana A. Itani

This session includes studies on how various immune cells and their products modulate blood pressure as well as how blood pressure modulates the immune system.

Speakers

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• Role of the Renal Nerves in Renal Damage and Immune Cell Infiltration in Dahl Salt-Sensitive Rats
  Ammar J. Alsheikh — Medical College of Wisconsin


• Envigo’s Female Salt-Sensitive Rapp Rats are now Spontaneously Hypertensive and have Higher Frequencies of CD4+, CD4+ CD25+ and CD4+ CD25+ FoxP3+ T cells compared to Normotensive Salt-resistant Rapp Rats
  Amrita V Pai — Georgetown University


• Oral L-arginine treatment significantly reduces blood pressure without altering the renal T cell profile in the DOCA salt model of hypertension
  Ellen E. Gillis — Augusta University