Electrical impulses may help reduce the complications of arterial hypertension Electrical impulses applied to a particular branch of the vagus nerve could be used in the future to reduce complications of arterial hypertension. These are the results of a research conducted, on animal models, by the Department of Angiocardioneurology and Translational Medicine of the I.R.C.C.S. Neuromed, in Italy, and published in the scientific journal Cell Reports. The research origins from the role that immune system plays in the genesis and development of high blood pressure, with the spleen as a main character: it is there that specific immune cells, T lymphocytes, are activated and then released into the blood, migrating to the organs typically affected by hypertension ("target organs"). On one hand, they contribute to the etiology of the hypertensive condition, on the other they cause the well-known related damages. The T lymphocytes activation process, as already stated by previous observations conducted by the same Department, is the result of an interaction between parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems, at the level of celiac vagus nerve and splenic nerve.