Santisteban, Monica M; Qi, Yanfei; Zubcevic, Jasenka; Kim, Seungbum; Yang, Tao; Shenoy, Vinayak; Cole-Jeffrey, Colleen T; Lobaton, Gilberto O; Stewart, Daniel C; Rubiano, Andres; Simmons, Chelsey S; Garcia-Pereira, Fernando; Johnson, Richard D; Pepine, Carl J; Raizada, Mohan K
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<p>Sympathetic nervous system control of inflammation plays a central role in hypertension. The gut receives significant sympathetic innervation, is densely populated with a diverse microbial ecosystem, and contains immune cells that greatly impact overall inflammatory homeostasis. Despite this uniqueness, little is known about the involvement of the gut in hypertension.</p>
