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Nature Medicine  10, 1163 - 1164 (2004)
doi:10.1038/nm1104-1163

Hypertension with a grain of salt

Ursula Danilczyk & Josef Penninger

IMBA, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Dr. Bohrgasse 3-5, 1030 Vienna, Austria. josef.penninger@imp.univie.ac.at or ursula.danilczyk@utoronto.ca

It is common knowledge that high salt intake can contribute to high blood pressure, but the reasons have not been clear. Fresh insight emerges from mouse studies showing how smooth muscle cells in blood vessels respond to changes in salt balance (pages 1193−1199).

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