Sonkusare lab discovery of new mechanisms for blood pressure regulation in the news!

School of Medicine researchers have identified a key contributor to high blood pressure that could lead to new treatments for a condition which affects almost half of American adults.

The discovery from UVA’s Swapnil Sonkusare, PhD, and colleagues breaks new ground in our understanding of how the body regulates blood pressure. It also shows how problems with this critical biological process drive high blood pressure, also known as hypertension.

“Our work identifies a new mechanism that helps maintain healthy blood pressure and shows how abnormalities in this mechanism can lead to hypertension,” said Sonkusare, of UVA’s Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics and UVA’s Robert M. Berne Cardiovascular Research Center. “The discovery of a new mechanism for elevation of blood pressure could provide therapeutic targets for treating hypertension.”

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