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Blood pressure control: salt gets under your skin

Nature Medicine volume 15, pages 487–488 (2009)Cite this article

After an increase in dietary salt, the excess sodium is stored under the skin—stimulating lymphatic growth through the activity of macrophages (pages 545–552). The findings should recast thinking about how blood pressure is regulated.

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Figure 1: Increased subcutaneous Na+ modulates lymphangiogenesis and blood pressure.

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