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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Danilczyk, U., Penninger, J. Hypertension with a grain of salt. Nat Med 10, 1163–1164 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm1104-1163
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