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ReviewNature reviews. Nephrology2025

Renal nerves in physiology, pathophysiology and interoception.

Louise C Evans, Alex Dayton, John W Osborn

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Review in Nature reviews. Nephrology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Louise C Evans *Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7007-3825
Alex Dayton *Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
John W OsbornDepartment of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA. osbor003@umn.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8109-1578

Funding

Training Program in Cardiac InnovationT32HL144472 · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · 2025 to 2025
$176k
NCCIH NIH HHS U54 AT012307NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL144472
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sympathetic efferent renal nerves have key roles in the regulation of kidney function and blood pressure. Increased renal sympathetic nerve activity is thought to contribute to hypertension by promoting renal sodium retention, renin release and renal vasoconstriction. This hypothesis led to the development of catheter-based renal denervation (RDN) for the treatment of hypertension. Two RDN devices that ablate both efferent and afferent renal nerves received FDA approval for this indication in 2023. However, in animal models, selective ablation of afferent renal nerves resulted in comparable anti-hypertensive effects to ablation of efferent and afferent renal nerves and was associated with a reduction in sympathetic nerve activity. Selective afferent RDN also improved kidney function in a chronic kidney disease model. Notably, the beneficial effects of RDN extend beyond hypertension and chronic kidney disease to other clinical conditions that are associated with elevated sympathetic nerve activity, including heart failure and arrhythmia. These findings suggest that the kidney is an interoceptive organ, as increased renal sensory nerve activity modulates sympathetic activity to other organs. Future studies are needed to translate this knowledge into novel therapies for the treatment of hypertension and other cardiorenal diseases.

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HypertensionInteroceptionKidneySympathetic Nervous SystemAnimalsCatheter AblationHumansRenal Insufficiency, ChronicSympathectomy

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