Gene implicated in stress-induced high blood pressure

Tuesday, November 24, 2009 - 14:21 in Health & Medicine

Do stressful situations make your blood pressure rise? If so, your phosducin gene could be to blame according to new research that indicates a role for the protein generated by the phosducin gene in modulating blood pressure in response to stress in both mice and humans.

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