It was checked by an experiment from the University of McGill. It allowed to detect some origins of hypertension.
A team of the McGill University in Canada found, through an experiment with rats, that a Salt diet triggered inflammation in the brain and raised blood pressure. The results were published and suggest that the brain could be the missing link in certain types of hypertensiontraditionally associated with the operation of kidneys.
According to the study, about a third of patients with hypertension did not respond to conventional medicinesthat act on the kidneys and blood vessels, which shows that the origin of the disease could be found in the central nervous system.
“This is a new evidence that High blood pressure can have its origin in the brainwhat opens the door for the development of treatments that act on the brain, ”said the associate professor of the Department of Physiology at McGill University, Prager-Kautorsky.
The experimental method
To obtain the conclusions, the researchers offered the rats water with 2% salta level comparable to human consumption through fast foods, instant noodles, bacon or processed cheeses. The purpose was to reproduce people’s eating habits.
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The choice of rats instead of mice responded to regulating the balance of water and salt more similar to humans. “This makes the findings more applicable to people”He said Khoutsky.
Effects detected in the brain
The scientists observed that the High salt diet activated immune cells in a specific region of the brain, which generated an inflammation process and the increase in Vasopressin hormonedirectly linked to the elevation of blood pressure.
The team used techniques Neuroimagen and last generation laboratory methods to track these changes, tools that were only available for this type of studies.
New perspectives in the treatment of hypertension
The teacher Khoutsky concluded that “The role of the brain in hypertension has been overlooked to a large extent, because it is more difficult to study. But with new techniques, we can observe these changes in action”
From these results, the researchers said they plan to analyze whether similar processes also intervene in other forms of hypertension. The finding opens the possibility of designing innovative treatments that act directly on the brain to combat one of the most widespread chronic diseases in the world.
Source: Ambito
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