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    Blood pressure is regulated by a complex neurohumoral system including the renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system, natriuretic peptides, endothelial pathways, the sympathetic nervous system, and the immune system. This review charts the evolution of our understanding of the genomic basis of hypertension at increasing resolution over the last five decades from monogenic causes to polygenic…

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    • Thankful to Sandosh Padmanabhan @sandp27 @UofGSCMH for the opportunity to co-author this review in @Kidney_Int A Genomic Deep Field View of Hypertension https://t.co/0mdJR7zWAK #hypertension #Genomics @ucsdnephrology https://t.co/0H6A8CM5Tt

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    To the Editor: The excellent editorial by Michael Flessner1 implies that the idea of transcellular electrolyte-free water movement from peritoneal capillaries to peritoneal dialysis fluid during peritoneal dialysis, as a result of osmotic pressure-induced ultrafiltration, was not reported until the three-pore model of Rippe was published. Flessner states that, ‘Rippe was the first to realize the…

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    • Should be great! People often forget that a nephrologist studying peritoneal dialysis, Dr. Karl Nolph, made one of the first clinical demonstrations of water channels in the 1960s (for which he received some ridicule and struggled to get it published) https://t.co/trobxtoSW2 https://t.co/eW0K2nqmrc