Hypernatremia is known to elicit a rise in sympathetic tone and blood pressure. In this issue of Neuron, Nomura et al. (2018) now show that this is mediated via the organum vasculosum laminae terminalis (OVLT). Na+ activates OVLT neurons via a paracrine mechanism involving sodium channel Nax expressed by astrocytes and the ependyma.
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