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Tag: Sympathetic Nervous System

Blood pressure
An advance online preprint was recently released in Circulation Research examining carotid bodies' role in hypertension and diabetes [1]. It will be published in the journal later this week. Drugs that target the glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP1) receptor are widely used to treat type 2 diabetes and have also been well-documented for their cardiovascular and...
The sympathetic nervous system
Researchers publishing in Frontiers of Aging Neuroscience Journal have discovered a new way in which senescent cells contribute to aging and chronic disease. Cellular SenescenceAs your body ages, more of your cells become senescent. Senescent cells do not divide or support the tissues of which they are part; instead, they emit potentially harmful chemical signals,...