Inflammation and Inflammatory Signaling in Water and Electrolyte Balance or Blood Pressure Control

Featured Topic — Thursday, April 29, 2021 — 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM — Virtual Session, Room APS-11
Water and Electrolyte Homeostasis Section — Chair: Jennifer C Sullivan — Co-Chair: Michael J. Ryan

The focus of this session is on the evolving role of the immune system in the regulation of water and electrolyte balance and blood pressure control.  It is now well accepted that many cardiovascular and renal diseases are associated with inflammation.  Yet many questions remain as to how increases in inflammation alter cardiovascular and renal function to promote disease.  The goal of this Featured Topic is to provide new information regarding how immune cells and the release of inflammatory cytokines alter cardiovascular and renal health. This includes, but is not limited to studies of the brain, vasculature, heart, and kidney.

Speakers

• Abstract 1 - Childhood Adversity Impacts Adolescent Hemodynamic Parameters and Plasma Markers of Cardiovascular Disease Risk
  Cailin E. Kellum — College of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  10:00 AM - 10:15 AM


• Abstract 2 - Direct Mineralocorticoid Receptor (MR) Activation, Independent of Increases in Blood Pressure, Drive Sex Differences in Tregs in DOCA-Salt Rats
  Kasey Marie Belanger — Augusta University Medical College of Georgia
  10:15 AM - 10:30 AM


• Abstract 3 - Physiological Effects of Histamine on Renal Function in Salt-Sensitive Hypertension
  Mark Domondon — Nephrology, Medical University of South Carolina
  10:30 AM - 10:45 AM


• Abstract 4 - NFkB Mediates Renal Sodium Retention via the Sodium Chloride Cotransporter in Zinc Deficiency-Induced Hypertension
  Cindellynn K. Murta — Wright State University
  10:45 AM - 11:00 AM


• Abstract 5 - IL-25 Reduces Early Progression of Renal Injury in Obese Dahl Salt-Sensitive Rats via Inducing Renal M2a-Macrophages and Suppressing M1-Macrophages
  Bibek Poudel — Experimental Therapeutics and Pharmacology and Emergency Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center
  11:00 AM - 11:15 AM


• Abstract 6 - Vascular Endothelium-Derived ET-1 Regulates The Renal T Cell-Macrophage Interplay Under High Salt Diet
  Patrick A. Molina — University of Alabama at Birmingham
  11:15 AM - 11:30 AM