RENAL VASCULAR HYPERTROPHY AND REMODELLING IN SHR: SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM AND IMPLICATIONS FOR HYPERTENSION

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/124404

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

High blood pressure (hypertension) remains a major health problem for Australians. One in six Australians suffer from hypertension, with consequent increased risk of stroke and heart attack. Anti-hypertensive treatments are available, but must usually be taken for the rest of the patient's life and the cost to the taxpayer of anti-hypertensive drugs is greater than for any other health problem. Prevention of high blood pressure depends on identifying the initial cause - but we still do not know the cause in over 90% of hypertensive people. This project will study whether overactivity of the nerves to the blood vessels of the kidney might be the cause. There is evidence for this in humans, and in a strain of rats which develops high blood pressure (the spontaneously hypertensive rat). Our experiments will study these rats to see whether nerves affect the structure and function of the blood vessels of the kidney in ways that lead to increased blood pressure.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2000

End Date: 01-01-2002

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $191,561.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Nutrigenomics and personalised nutrition

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

autonomic nervous system | circulatory physiology of the kidney | hypertension | kidney development | renal circulation | renal disease | stereology | vascular hypertrophy

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