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Renal denervation forDiabetes
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RevathyCarnagarin, MarcioG.Kiuchi,
LeslieMarisolLugo- Gavidia, andMarkusP.Schlaich
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Introduction
The sympathetic nervous system (SNS) plays a vital integrative role in the regulation of cardiovascular and metabolic
homeostasis. Heightened sympathetic activation is a hallmark of cardiometabolic disease such as metabolic syndrome
and type 2 diabetes (T2DM). Sympathetic overdrive results
in chronic dysregulation of cardiometabolic processes and
thereby contributes to a clustering of metabolic abnormalities and cardiovascular risk factors that include hypertension
(HTN), abdominal obesity, hyperglycemia (prediabetes or
overt T2DM), and dyslipidemia (high triglycerides and low
high-density lipoproteins), as perhaps best exemplied by
the Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) [1]. In addition, the visceral
fat accumulation, a characteristic feature in MetS, has been
linked to excessive adipokine release, primarily leptin further feeding the SNS hyperactivity [2]. These abnormalities
often are associated with insulin resistance, non-alcoholic
fatty liver disease (NAFLD), obesity and other metabolic
diseases [3–7]. Furthermore, the SNS differentially regulates
immunity to sustain a chronic inammatory state that further
impairs cardio-metabolic homeostasis [8]. A selfperpetuating cycle develops where sympathetic overdrive
contributes to the risk of developing T2DM and insulin resistance, conversely, T2DM and insulin resistance contribute to
a further sympathetic overdrive (Fig.8.1) may lead to progression of the clinical features of the MetS. Ultimately,
these disorders combined are associated with a 2–four-fold
increase in risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD)
and all-cause mortality [9].
Therapeutic targeting of the SNS is a rational approach,
which is not necessarily limited to the management of cardiovascular disorders such as hypertension, but may be
potentially used to restore metabolic homeostasis, as a common pathology is aberrant sympathetic activation. Efforts to
contain these combined co-morbidities in MetS includes
lifestyle modication either alone or in combination with
pharmacotherapy. But these are easier to advocate than to
incorporate into clinical practice. Despite the availability of
effective pharmacotherapy to target SNS, clinical management of co-existing abnormalities is often challenging due to
various patient factors such as inconvenience of life-long
therapy, signicant pill burden, pill holidays, unfavourable
drug interactions, side effects of medication and other factors
R. Carnagarin (*) · M. G. Kiuchi · L. M. Lugo-Gavidia
Dobney Hypertension Centre, School of Medicine- Royal Perth
Hospital Unit/Medical Research Foundation, University of Western
Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia
e-mail: revathy.carnagarin@uwa.edu.au;
marcio.galindokiuchi@uwa.edu.au
M. P. Schlaich
Dobney Hypertension Centre, School of Medicine- Royal Perth
Hospital Unit/Medical Research Foundation, University of Western
Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia
Departments of Cardiology and Nephrology, Royal Perth Hospital,
Perth, WA, Australia
Neurovascular Hypertension and Kidney Disease Laboratory,
Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
e-mail: markus.schlaich@uwa.edu.au
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
R. R. Heuser et al. (eds.), Renal Denervation, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38934-4_8
Fig. 8.1 The Self-reinforcing cycle of sympathetic overdrive in the
context of metabolic disturbances
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that contribute to non–adherence. Intervention approaches
such as catheter-based renal denervation may offer a one-off,
safe procedural approach to reduce the central sympathetic
overdrive, thereby effectively targeting the cluster of cardiometabolic abnormalities characteristic of MetS.
Renal Sympathetic Denervation
forTargeting Sympathetic Overdrive
Renal Denervation (RDN), which is the sympathetic denervation in the renal arteries, though reported as early as 1924
[10], has only recently re-emerged as an effective treatment
strategy for hypertension, owing to the plethora of benecial cardiovascular and metabolic effects. The cardiometabolic effects of RDN not only includes improved blood
pressure control but also regression of hypertension mediated end organ damage (HMOD) such as left ventricular
hypertrophy and diastolic dysfunction, as well as improved
glucose metabolism, insulin sensitivity and resistance, and
improved lipid prole [11–14]. However, the overall effect
of RDN as a possible treatment option for hypertension,
has shown diverse results in the various clinical studies
[12, 15–17]. The first proof-of-concept RDN trial,
SYMPLICITY HTN-1 demonstrated that catheter-based
sympathetic denervation led to a substantial reduction in
blood pressure without any serious adverse effects [11], at
6months and subsequent further follow up compared with
standard pharmacotherapeutic antihypertensive regimen
[18, 19]. Soon after, the SIMPLICITY HTN-2 trial also
demonstrated signicant BP reduction in a similar pattern
in the RDN group compared to control subjects on standard
pharmacologic therapy [12]. However, these studies did not
include a sham-controlled design and were not blinded,
moreover the antihypertensive medication adherence was
not assessed and blood pressure measurement was not standardised in these trials.
In order to address the shortcomings of the initial RDN
trials, the SYMPLICITY HTN-3 was designed as a prospective sham-controlled study, but unfortunately the RDN procedure failed to demonstrate a signicant reduction of blood
pressure compared to the sham counterparts [19, 20]. This
outcome of the SYMPLICITY HTN-3 trial tossed sympathetic RDN into a stand still despite the various study-related
criticisms, most importantly the failure to achieve complete
circumferential, four quadrant sympathetic bre ablation. In
view of the SYMPLICITY HTN-3 outcome where RDN
failed to meet its primary endpoint, the next in line,
SYMPLICITY HTN-4 clinical trial aimed at investigating
the effect of RDN in patients with moderate uncontrolled
HTN was halted. Nevertheless, the DENER-HTN trial,
which was designed to address the major shortcomings of
the SYMPLICITY HTN-3 trial such as the standardization
of the antihypertensive regimen and assessment of medication adherence clearly demonstrated the efcacy of the sympathetic RDN when delivered along a standardized
stepped-care antihypertensive treatment [21]. Lessons from
the SYMPLICITY HTN-3 and DENERHTN trials clearly
revealed the need for identifying or characterizing the patient
populations, which would be beneted the most from RDN
[22]. In view of this context, Kario etal. showed that RDN
demonstrated a better favourable response in patients with
concomitant obstructive sleep apnea [23].
Following these trials that were suggestive of diverse
responses with RDN, three clinical trials namely the
SPYRAL HTN-OFF MED, SPYRAL HTN-ON MED, and
RADIANCE-HTN SOLO were designed as sham controlled studies with similar protocol design and executed
rigorously with an intent to overcome issues identied in
previous studies [24–26] and the published results demonstrated a consistent, signicant lowering of blood pressure
compared to sham control (Fig. 8.2). Nevertheless, the
magnitude of BP lowering was similar to the changes
expected from antihypertensive pharmacotherapy and was
smaller when compared to the uncontrolled, unblinded
RDN studies [19, 22, 27].
Of note, these studies did not include patients with isolated systolic hypertension which forms around 70% of the
elderly patient population, and hence, the data from these
studies are not applicable to this important isolated systolic
hypertension group. Henceforth, future trials are still warranted to clearly identify the true effect of RDN as a therapeutic strategy in the management of hypertension, and the
associated cardiometabolic conditions. Nonetheless, RDN is
still considered a valuable option for BP lowering in clinical
practice. Indeed, the results from these RDN clinical trials
impelled the meeting of The US Food and Drug
Administration Circulatory System Devices Panel in
December 2018 in view of the clinical evaluation of antihypertensive devices and recommendations for clinical management of Hypertension in this perspective [28]. It is
henceforth worthwhile to revisit the fundamental mechanisms governing the effects of renal denervation, not only in
the regulation of blood pressure but also the associated benecial metabolic effects and its potential in the management
of cardiometabolic disorders.

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(SBP and DBP) changes in renal denervation vs sham-control groups in
the 3 recent randomized, sham-controlled clinical trials showed. ABPM
indicates ambulatory BP monitoring; CI, condence interval; HTN-ON
MED, Spyral Hypertension on Medication trial; HTN-OFF MED,
RADIANCE-HTN SOLO
End point assessment at 2 months
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SOLO, RADIANCE hypertension solo (off medication) trial. Reprinted
from Kandzari etal., 1 Azizi etal., 2 and Townsend etal. 3 with permission. Copyright © 2018, Elsevier
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Diastolic
Mechanisms ofRDN-Induced Clinical
Benets
The sympathetic renal innervation includes the afferent sensory bres that originate from the kidneys and terminate at
the integrating nuclei in the brainstem and the efferent sympathetic bres originate from central nervous system nuclei
to pass through to the kidney (Fig.8.3) [8]. Increased central
sympathetic outow directed towards the kidneys results in
reduced renal blood ow and stimulates the reninangiotensin- aldosterone signalling (RAAS) resulting in
enhanced tubular reabsorption of sodium and water [29].
Studies in rat models reported that RDN did not impact the
salt sensitivity of arterial pressure and resulted in BP lowering independent of renin release or sodium-water balance
[30–33]. In addition, the ablation of the afferent sympathetic
signalling by RDN also resulted in an off target antiarrhythmic effect and metabolic effects. Animal studies have demonstrated substantial neuronal remodelling in the brain stem
and stellate ganglia following bilateral RDN procedure [34–
37]. The renal efferent sympathetic nerves originate from the
second sympathetic ganglion and forms a network within the
adventitia of the renal arteries [38], which in turn is regulated
by the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM), the obliteration
of which causes substantial blood pressure lowering [39].
Accordingly, the RDN procedure was introduced to disrupt
the sympathetic signalling from the brain to the kidneys and
vice versa as well as the inter renal sympathetic cross-talk
[40]. RDN-mediated sympathetic ablation, evident from the
reduction in gold standard markers of sympathetic activation
such as muscle sympathetic nerve activity and noradrenaline
spillover [41], reduced systemic vasoconstriction, improved
cardiac performance, with favourable renal and metabolic
effects [42]. Additionally, RDN blocked the projection of the
detrimental renal stimuli such as electrolyte imbalance, oliguria, renal ischemia, high adenosine levels to the relevant
nuclei in the brain stem in turn ameliorating the sympathetic
outow to other organs.
Furthermore, RDN attenuates sympathetic modulation of
immune pathways that causes metabolic perturbations such
as hyperinsulinemia and insulin resistance and vice versa.
Sympathetic overdrive triggers inammation of the brain,
skeletal muscle vasculature and the kidneys resulting in
chronic sustained BP elevation [43–45] along with perturbation of the metabolic homeostasis. In most clinical conditions associated with sympathetic overdrive, a chronic
low-grade systemic inammation is established and sustained by activated immune cells and increased cytokines
and chemokines in the circulation [46–50].
Distinct clinical states such as MetS, type 2 diabetes and
as well as obesity related hypertension are characterised by
systemic immune activation and circulating inammatory
cytokines and chemokines that exert metabolic stress, perturbing homeostasis [49–54]. Bilateral chemical sympathetic
denervation of the renal arteries in mice inhibited immune
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Fig. 8.3 Renal sympathetic efferent innervation includes bres originating in the central nervous system and traversing to the kidney as well
as afferent sensory bres from the kidneys to hypothalamus. Increased
sympathetic outow to the renal vascular bed reduces renal blood ow,
releases renin, thereby activating the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone
II-induced hypertension [55]. RDN produced a similar effect
in the deoxycorticosterone acetate-salt rat model of hypertension where BP elevation was caused by renal inammationmediated augmented afferent sympathetic trafcking [56].
Furthermore, catheter-based renal denervation-mediated
amelioration of sympathetic activation reduced monocyte
activation and circulating inammatory cytokines in patients
with hypertension [57].
The Metabolic Eects ofRDN
Sympathetic overdrive induces insulin resistance [58] and
promotes the development of obesity [59], diabetes mellitus
[60] and MetS [61] with the resultant hyperinsulinemic state
promoting feedforward sympathoexcitation [62, 63]. Insulin
resistance was a contemporaneous phenomenon with essential hypertension as seen in around 50% of patients [64] and
hypertension often coexisted with obesity as well [65, 66].
Insulin resistance, hyperinsulinemia and increased adiposity
have been associated with heightened activation of the sympathetic nervous system, recorded as heightened muscle
sympathetic nerve activity [67, 68]. The sympathetic
overdrive- mediated vascular resistance shifts the blood ow
from the insulin sensitive, striated muscle to the less insulin
sensitive viscera, hence the prevalence of hypertension is
often associated with insulin resistance and impaired postprandial insulinemia [69]. Dietary and life style modication
measures-mediated sympathetic inhibition predicts the
weight loss in metabolic syndrome [70, 71]. These ndings
(RAAS) cascade and enhances tubular reabsorption of urinary sodium
and water. The cardiometabolic consequence of increased sympathetic
ow includes cardiac hypertrophy and arrhythmias, endothelial dysfunction and insulin resistance in the skeletal muscle contributing to the
development of diabetes mellitus and metabolic syndrome [8]
instigate RDN as potential strategy for restoring the perturbed metabolic homeostasis to target the underlying
pathology, the sympathetic overdrive.
Pharmacological inhibition of the central sympathetic
outow with the imidazoline receptor agonist, moxonidine
increased the blood ow to the skeletal muscle, decreased
glucagon secretion that resulted in reduction of glycogenolysis and gluconeogenesis and resulted in the improvement of
overall glucose metabolism [72]. However, the use of central
sympatholytic agents is sometimes associated with side
effects, which results in medication tolerance and relatively
high non-adherence rates [73]. In this context sympatholysis
with RDN is a potential option to restore the perturbed glucose metabolism [74]. RDN attenuates the release of norepinephrine, inhibits the α-adrenergic tone, and decreases the
RAAS activation with benecial consequences on striated
muscle blood ow and metabolism [75]. The improvement
in blood ow peripherally to insulin sensitive musculature in
turn facilitates insulin delivery and action on the skeletal
muscle enhancing glucose uptake and utilisation [76].
Sympathetic overdrive renders patients with hypertension
more susceptible to weight gain associated with reduced
adrenoceptor responsiveness [77]. Sympathetic activation
promotes central adiposity, which has been is associated
with higher rates of obstructive sleep apnea [78] and further
derangement of glucose homeostasis. In patients with concomitant obesity, resistant hypertension and obstructive
sleep apnea, attenuation of sympathetic overdrive by RDN
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78]. Taken together, RDN as a one off approach could pro-
vide a sustainable therapeutic strategy in the management of
obesity related hypertension, particularly in those patients
with concomitant sleep apnea, to provide a wholistic solution not only with BP reduction but also in restoring the overall metabolic homeostasis. Indeed, the evidence obtained
from clinical trials suggest that RDN is a potential intervention in the management of metabolic disorders associated
with elevated blood pressure, with a likely reduction in the
overall cardiovascular risk.
Sympathetic ablation by RDN besides lowering blood
pressure, improved insulin action, glycosylated haemoglobin levels and other metabolic parameters, attenuated
the severity of sleep apnea in a resistant hypertension
patient population [72, 79]. RDN signicantly reduced
the average heart rate of the heart failure patients in the
EnligHTN I trial [80]. Moreover, RDN was associated
with other cardiac benets such as the reduction in left
ventricular mass and improvement of atrial and ventricular arrhythmias [81, 82]. In addition, RDN ameliorated
macroalbuminuria and microalbuminuria and improved
the renal resistance indices [83]. Interestingly, RDNmediated sympathetic ablation in patients with hypertension and diabetes mellitus showed improvement in insulin
sensitivity and glucose metabolism, besides lowering of
blood pressure [72, 78]. Furthermore, RDN has demonstrated benecial effects in combined metabolic and endocrine disorders. In patients with polycystic ovary
syndrome, RDN improved fasting glucose, insulin sensitivity along with a reduction in glomerular hyperltration
and urinary albumin excretion [84]. RDN delayed the progression diabetes mediated renal injury which had already
been proven in animal studies [85].
However, sympathetic ablation by RDN in patients with
elevated BP and MetS did not demonstrate any change in
fasting glucose, insulin sensitivity nor showed any improvement in sympathetic activity as shown by the DREAMSStudy [86, 87]. The DREAMS-Study included near
drug-naïve participants with increased sympathetic activity
when compared to other clinical trials [88, 89] and was
expected to demonstrate at best a reduction in sympathetic
activity [90]. May be this nding would have been the result
of incomplete or insufcient denervation is uncertain but
remains a possibility. The other limitations of the DREAMSStudy include a small cohort size and the lack of a control
group which makes it difcult to draw any rm conclusions.
Further evaluation is warranted in the form of rigorously
designed clinical trials to conrm the previously reported
benecial metabolic effects of RDN in type 2 diabetes and
MetS.
Future Perspectives andConclusions
The endocrine and metabolic mechanisms by which RDN
impacts glucose homeostasis remain to be fully understood.
RDN-mediated metabolic effects are likely to involve a
concerted interplay of various mechanisms such as the
modulation of afferent signaling to attenuate the sympathetic outow centrally, interference with the RAAS cascade, decreased alpha adrenergic vascular tone promoting
enhanced blood ow to the skeletal muscle vasculature
which in turn promotes insulin delivery, increases insulin
and non-esteried fatty acid sensitivity, enhances glucose
uptake and metabolism ameliorating insulin resistance
[90–93]. The studies which were designed to test RDN in
diabetic patients possessed various limitations such as a
small sample size, lack of sham-control groups, short duration for follow up and others. Moreover, the RDN induced
BP lowering effect by itself could account for the benecial
improvements in glucose metabolism. Future RDN studies
in the metabolic area are required to address the limitations
of the previous studies and identify the magnitude of any
effect of RDN-mediated sympathetic ablation on metabolic
homeostasis in patients with type 2 diabetes and MetS.The
ongoing RDN clinical trials in diabetes (NCT 02081989)
and metabolic syndrome (NCT 01911078) performed to
determine the effects of sympathetic ablation by RDN on
insulin sensitivity and glucose metabolism, will further
clarify the role and applicability of RDN in metabolic
disorders.
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Introduction
The sympathetic nervous system (SNS) is crucial for homeostatic regulation, mainly with regards to the control of body
uids and blood pressure (BP). However, persistent activation of the SNS can trigger harmful cardiorenal alterations
[1]. Indeed, preclinical and clinical studies have demonstrated that SNS dysfunction is implicated in the pathogenesis of cardiorenal diseases such as hypertension (HTN), heart
failure (HF), and chronic kidney disease (CKD) [2–4].
The notion that the kidneys play a pivotal role in the
development and maintenance of HTN was rst desribed in
the nineteenth century with the observation that renal ischemia increased vascular resistance resulting in increased systemic BP levels [5, 6]. However, whether renal dysfunction
is the cause or the consequence of HTN was unclear. In this
context, Guyton etal. proposed that extracellular uid volume is maintained by the kidneys via renal excretion of
sodium and water depending on dietary intake [7–9]. The
kidney in response to increased renal perfusion pressures
M. G. Kiuchi · R. Carnagarin · L. M. L. Gavidia
Dobney Hypertension Centre, Medical School - Royal Perth
Hospital Unit, University of Western Australia,
Crawley, WA, Australia
e-mail: marcio.galindokiuchi@uwa.edu.au; revathy.carnagarin@
uwa.edu.au; lesliemarisol.lugogavidia@research.uwa.edu.au
D. Hering
Department of Hypertension and Diabetology, Medical University
of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland
e-mail: hering@gumed.edu.pl
M. P. Schlaich (*)
Dobney Hypertension Centre, School of Medicine- Royal Perth
Hospital Unit, University of Western Australia,
Crawley, WA, Australia
Departments of Cardiology and Nephrology, Royal Perth Hospital,
Perth, WA, Australia
Neurovascular Hypertension & Kidney Disease Laboratory and
Human Neurotransmitter Laboratory, Baker IDI Heart and
Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
e-mail: markus.schlaich@uwa.edu.au
alters sodium and water excretion to maintain uid homeostasis, whereby increased pressure translates into increased
sodium and water excretion, a concept referred to as “pressure natriuresis”. In normotensive individuals, renal pressure
natriuresis is capable of handling transient variations of
intravascular volumes triggered by increased heart rate (HR)
or increased peripheral vascular resistance. However, it is
postulated that with consistent increases in BP, the kidney
shifts to a new higher-than-normal equilibrium point for salt
and water excretion resulting in higher BP [7–10]. Several
renal transplantation studies [11–15] have revealed that HTN
follows the kidneys; the rst study demonstrated that transplantation of kidneys from hypertensive rats to normotensive
rats resulted in HTN in the normal mice and similarly transplanting kidneys from normotensive rats to hypertensive rats
resulted in abrogation of BP in the hypertensive rats, suggesting that the kidney might play an integral role in the
development of HTN [11–15]. Hence, the SNS has been
identied as an important therapeutic target, particularly the
renal nerves that contain both sympathetic (efferent) and
sensory (afferent) bers.
Physiology
The Sympathetic Nervous System andChronic
Kidney Disease
Increased sympathetic activity has been demonstrated to
increase cardiovascular risk in patients with CKD and is a
key characteristic of the hypertensive state, occurring even
in the early clinical course of the disease [1, 16, 17]. In both
conditions, several mechanisms contribute to the hyperadrenergic state, including reex and neuro-humoral pathways [1, 16, 18]. In CKD, sympathetic hyperactivity appears
at the earliest clinical stage showing a direct association
with the severity of renal impairment [18–21]. Activation of
the renal efferent sympathetic nerves regulates kidney function and ultimately BP by modulating tubular sodium reab-
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sorption, renal blood ow (RBF), glomerular ltration rate
(GFR), and renin release [22, 23]. Hence, surgical or chemical renal denervation (RDN) was used widely in experimental studies to further explore the role of renal nerves in
kidney and circulatory physiology. The exact mechanisms
by which RDN causes long-term BP lowering have not yet
been entirely explored but are likely to include reduced
sympathetic activity and effects on the renin-angiotensin
system. Pöss etal. described a signicant increase in urinary
sodium excretion 6months after RDN in patients with resistant hypertension. This effect remained apparent after consideration of antihypertensive drug therapy [24]. Consistent
with previous reports demonstrating decreased renal vascular resistance [25], Delacroix etal. reported an improvement
in total blood volume distributed to the kidney per cardiac
cycle [26]. This could be especially important in patients
demonstrating end organ damage because of constantly
high BP levels. RDN has been demonstrated to be safe and
can be considered as a promising and novel therapeutic tool
for CKD patients with hypertension [27–30], by reducing
renin activity, aldosterone and angiotensin-II levels in
humans [31].
Meta-analyses have shown that CKD is an independent
cardiovascular risk factor [32] and other studies have
described that adrenergic activation exhibits an adverse
impact on cardiovascular morbidity and in the case of CKD,
an adverse effect on cardiovascular mortality [1, 16, 21, 33].
Therefore, preventing further renal impairment is an important therapeutic target [34]. Baseline levels of muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA), a surrogate of sympathetic
hyperactivity is increased in mild CKD caused by hypertension. Tinucci etal. found that baseline level of MSNA was
signicantly higher (34 bursts/min) in hypertensive subjects
presenting with mild CKD when compared to hypertensive
patients with normal renal function (24 bursts/min, P<0.05)
and normotensive patients (16 bursts/min, P< 0.05), highlighting that high sympathetic activity can be detected in
early stage of CKD [35].
Renal Eerent Signaling
The renal efferent sympathetic nerves are mostly adrenergic
[36]. Norepinephrine release mediates vasoconstriction of
the renal vessels, as well as sodium and water reabsorption at
renal tubular epithelial cells, and renin discharge from the
juxtaglomerular cells [37].
The mechanisms through which RDN attenuates BP levels remain elusive. One explanation is that RDN increases
renal sodium and water excretion and causes a subsequent
contraction of blood volume [38] by suppressing sympathetically mediated renin secretion and/or renal tubular sodium
reabsorption. However, Foss et al. found no differences in
daily or cumulative sodium and water balance between
SHAM and RDN rats [39]. This is consistent with previous
reports suggesting that RDN decreases BP in normotensive
Sprague Dawley rats independent of sodium balance or renin
release [40, 41]. It is important to note that RDN had no
effect on salt sensitivity or arterial pressure in Sprague
Dawley rats [38] or Dahl salt-sensitive (DS) rats. In line with
their ndings that afferent renal nerves are not involved in
sodium-sensitive hypertension in DS rat model, these data
suggests that the antihypertensive effect of RDN in the DS
rat is likely due to reduced renin-angiotensin system activity,
renal vascular resistance or a different effect of efferent renal
sympathetic nerve ablation. Further investigation is needed
to test this hypothesis [42].
The rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM) exerts a vital
function on the regulation of efferent renal sympathetic
nerve activity (RSNA). The level of RSNA is reliant on the
neuronal activity in sympathetic premotor nuclei in the
brainstem and hypothalamus, including the RVLM and rostral ventromedial medulla (RVMM) as well the paraventricular nucleus (PVN). The notable reduction in BP after
destruction of premotor neurons in the RVLM highlights its
important regulatory role [43]. Inhibition of renal efferent
sympathetic nerve signalling after RDN with downstream
effects on the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone cascade are
likely contributors to the BP lowering efcacy.
Renal Aerent Signaling
The renal afferent sensory nerves relay signals from the kidney to the central nervous system, and activation of afferent
renal nerves in models of renal ischemia has been shown to
elevate BP and plasma norepinephrine (NE) spillover [44]
and increase renal sympathetic nerve activity [45]. Recently,
Tsai and colleagues demonstrated in ambulatory canines that
bilateral RDN, possibly via interrupting afferent renal innervation, led to substantial brain stem and bilateral stellate ganglion remodeling, at 8 weeks post-procedure [46]. These
changes were associated with reduced 18FDG- uptake in the
brainstem, left stellate ganglion nerve activity and atrial
tachyarrhythmia events. Neural remodeling in the brain stem
and stellate ganglion may therefore at least in part explain
the described antiarrhythmic effects of RDN [46].
Trans-synaptic degeneration is a phenomenon in the central and peripheral nervous system that may remain active
both at the level of the insult and in remote brain structures
for as long as 1year after a trauma [47]. These progressive
alterations may underlie some of the long-term functional
consequences after initial injury (i.e. RDN) as shown in
Fig.9.1, which summarizes the various direct and indirect
connections between renal sympathetic nerves and the stellate ganglion. Meckler and colleagues showed that approxi-
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