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EphrinA4/EphA4 controls blood pressure via arterial sympathetic innervation

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Abstract The autonomic sympathetic nervous system innervates peripheral resistance arteries, thereby controlling arterial diameter and modulating blood supply to organs and arterial tone. Despite its fundamental role in blood flow regulation and adaptive response of the cardiovascular system to challenging situations, how sympathetic arterial innervation develops remains poorly understood. We here show that sympathetic arterial innervation is regulated by the axonal guidance molecule EphrinA4 in arterial Smooth Muscle Cells (SMCs), which repels sympathetic axons via the EphA4 receptor. Specific inactivation of EphA4 in sympathetic axons induced a loss of repulsion and increased sympathetic innervation of peripheral arteries throughout life. Functional consequences were a significant increase in arterial tone (resistivity and vasoconstriction), leading to an elevated systemic arterial blood pressure that reached to hypertension under stressful circumstances. These findings identify a novel pathway that negatively regulates sympathetic arterial innervation, and could participate to the appearance of idiopathic resistant hypertension.

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hal-04081031 , version 1 (25-04-2023)

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Emilie Simonnet, Sabrina Martin, José Vilar, Emilie Vessieres, Sonia Taib, et al.. EphrinA4/EphA4 controls blood pressure via arterial sympathetic innervation. BioRxiv, 2022, ⟨10.1101/2023.02.03.526852⟩. ⟨hal-04081031⟩
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