APStracts (ISSN 1080-4757) Vol. 5, 1998

The American Physiological Society

• Expression of adenylyl cyclase mrnas in the denervated and in the developing mouse skeletal muscle. Suzuki, Yosuke, Tiansheng Shen, Madeleine Poyard, Martin Best -Belpomme, Jacques Hanoune, and Nicole Defer. Institut National de la Sant[acute]e et la Recherche M[acute]edicale U-99, H[circumflex]opital Henri Mondor, F-94010 Cr[acute]eteil, France APStracts 5:0069C, 1998.
• Icam-1:cd18 interaction mediates neutrophil cytotoxicity through protease release. Barnett, Carlton C., Jr., Ernest E. Moore, Gary W. Mierau, David A. Partrick, Walter L. Biffl, David J. Elzi, Christopher C. Silliman. Department of Surgery, Denver Health Medical Center and the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado. _Department of Pathology, the Children's Hospital, Denver, Colorado. _Bonfils Blood Center and Department of Pediatrics, the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado. APStracts 5:0070C, 1998.
• Release of dopamine and norepinephrine by hypoxia from pc12 cells. Kumar, Ganesh K., Jeffrey L. Overholt, Gary R. Bright, Kwong Y. Hui, Hongwen Lu, Miklos Gratzl, and Nanduri R. Prabhakar. Departments of Biochemistry, Physiology & Biophysics, Anatomy and Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106 APStracts 5:0071C, 1998.
• Determinants of relaxation rate in skinned frog skeletal muscle fibers. Wahr, Philip A., J. David Johnson, and Jack. A. Rall. Departments of Physiology and Medical Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA APStracts 5:0072C, 1998.
• Endothelin-1 stimulates phospholipase activity at concentrations effective for channel activation in porcine coronary arteries. Jones, Allan W., Lawrence Magliola, Carrie B. Waters, and Leona J. Rubin. Departments of Physiology, Veterinary Biomedical Sciences and the Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65212 APStracts 5:0073C, 1998.
• Interferon-alpha and interferon-gamma differentially affect pancreatic [beta]-cell phenotype and function. Balde[acute]on, Manuel E., Taehoon Chun, and H. Rex Gaskins. Division of Nutritional Sciences and Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign APStracts 5:0074C, 1998.
• Interaction of reactive oxygen species with ion transport mechanisms. Kourie, Joseph I. Membrane Transport Group, Department of Chemistry, The Faculties, The Australian National University, Canberra City, ACT, 0200 AUSTRALIA. APStracts 5:0075C, 1998.
• Extracellular atp and bradykinin increase cgmp in vascular endothelial cells via activation of protein kinase c. Castro, A. F., C. Amorena, A. M[umlaut]uller, G. Ottaviano, M. T. T[acute]ellez-I[tilde]n[acute]on, A. C. Taquini. Instituto de Investigaciones Cardiol[acute]ogicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Marcelo T. de Alvear 2270 (1122), Buenos Aires, Argentina APStracts 5:0076C, 1998.
• Voltage-dependence of ca2+ sparks in intact cerebral arteries. Jaggar, Jonathan H., Andr[beta] S. Stevenson, and Mark T. Nelson. Department of Pharmacology, The University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA, Telephone (802) 656 2500, FAX: (802) 656 8915 APStracts 5:0077C, 1998.
• Effect of insulin on vascular smooth muscle cell growth in hypertension: role and regulation of mitogen-activated protein kinase. Begum, Najma, Young Song, Jennifer Rienzie, and Louis Ragolia. The Diabetes Research Laboratory, Winthrop University Hospital, Mineola, NY 11501, and Department of Medicine, Health Science Center, SUNY at Stony Brook, NY 11574. APStracts 5:0078C, 1998.
• Physiological effects of na+-ca2+ exchanger knock down by antisense oligos in primary cultured vascular smooth muscle cells. Slodzinski, Martin K., and Mordecai P. Blaustein. Departments of Physiology and Medicine, and the Center for Vascular Biology and Hypertension, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201 APStracts 5:0079C, 1998.
• Differential effects of phorbol ester (pma) on blocker-sensitive enacs of frog skin and a6 epithelia. Els, Willem J., Xuehong Liu, and Sandy I. Helman. Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61802 APStracts 5:0080C, 1998.
• Regulation of ribosomal dna transcription by insulin. Hannan, Katherine M., Lawrence I. Rothblum, and Leonard S. Jefferson,. 1Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, The Pennsylvania State University, College of Medicine, Hershey, PA., 17033 and 2The Henry Hood Research Program, Sigfried and Janet Weis Center for Research, Danville PA, 17822 APStracts 5:0081C, 1998.
• Mechanisms of egf-induced stimulation of sodium reabsorption by alveolar epithelial cells. Danto, Spencer I., Zea Borok, Xiao-Ling Zhang, Melissa R. Lopez, Paryus Patel, Edward D. Crandall, and Richard L. Lubman. Will Rogers Institute Pulmonary Research Center, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033 APStracts 5:0082C, 1998.
• Lasp-1 is a regulated phosphoprotein within the camp signaling pathway in the gastric parietal cell. Chew, C. S., J. A. Parente, C. J. Zhou, E. Baranco, and X. Chen. Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA USA APStracts 5:0083C, 1998.
• Ion channels in microglia (brain macrophages) . Eder, Claudia. Department of Neurophysiology, Institute of Physiology, Humboldt University, Tucholsky Str. 2, D 10117 Berlin, Germany APStracts 5:0084C, 1998.
• Eosinophil major basic protein increases membrane permeability in mammalian urinary bladder epithelium. Gleich, Teri J. Kleine Gerald J., and Simon A. Lewis. Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, Department of Immunology, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, Rochester, MI 55905 APStracts 5:0085C, 1998.
• A luciferase-engineered cell line to study camp regulation in endothelial cells. Xavier-Neto, J., A. C. Pereira, A. H. Motoyama, and J. E. Krieger. LaboratUrio de Biologia Molecular, Instituto do CoraA,o, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de S,o Paulo, SP, Brasil APStracts 5:0086C, 1998.
• Na+/k+/2cl- cotransport in ehrlich cells: regulation by protein phosphatases and kinases. Krarup, Thomas, Lene D. Jakobsen, Bo S. Jensen, and Else K. Hoffmann. Department of Biochemistry, The August Krogh Institute, University of Copenhagen, 13 Universitetsparken, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark APStracts 5:0087C, 1998.
• Regulation of sodium-calcium exchange activity by cytosolic calcium in transfected chinese hamster ovary cells. Fang, Yu, Madalina Condrescu, and John P. Reeves. Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, New Jersey Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry, 185 South Orange Avenue, Newark, NJ 07103 APStracts 5:0088C, 1998.
• Hypertrophy-stimulated myogenic regulatory factor mrna increases are attenuated in fast muscle of aged quails. Lowe, Dawn A., Troy Lund, and Stephen E. Alway. Departments of Anatomy and Medical Microbiology and Immunology , College of Medicine, and the Institute on Aging, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, 33612 APStracts 5:0089C, 1998.
• Tyrosine kinase inhibitors and antioxidants modulate nf-kb and nos -ii induction in retinal pigmented epithelial cells. Faure, Violaine, Yves Courtois, and Olivier Goureau. D_veloppement, Vieillissement et Pathologie de la R_tine, U450 Institut National de la Sant_ et de la Recherche M_dicale, Association Claude Bernard, Paris, France APStracts 5:0090C, 1998.
• Ca2+-sensitizing effects of the mutations at ile-79 and arg-92 of troponin t in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Morimoto, Sachio, Fumi Yanaga, Reiko Minakami, and Iwao Ohtsuki. Department of 1Clinical Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, and 2School of Health Sciences, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812, Japan APStracts 5:0091C, 1998.
• Hypotonicity activates a lanthanide-sensitive pathway for k+ release in a6 epithelia. Smet, Patrick De, Jinqing Li, and Willy Van Driessche. Laboratory of Physiology, KULeuven, Campus Gasthuisberg, B-3000 LEUVEN (Belgium) APStracts 5:0092C, 1998.
• The [beta] subunit of xenopus gastric h,k-atpase mediates unusual degradation of [alpha]-[beta] complexes in xenopus oocytes . Chen, Pei-Xian, Paul M. Mathews, Peter J. Good, Bernard C. Rossier, and K[umlaut]athi Geering. Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Lausanne, rue du Bugnon 27, CH-1005 Lausanne, Switzerland and Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Child Health and Human development, Bethesda, MD 20892, APStracts 5:0093C, 1998.
• Acid-induced responses in hamster chorda tympani and intracellular ph (phi) tracking by taste receptor cells. Stewart, Robert E., Vijay Lyall, George M. Feldman, Gerard L. Heck, and John A. Desimone. Departments of Physiology and Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298 and McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Richmond, VA 23249, USA APStracts 5:0094C, 1998.
• Mechanical loading regulates nitric oxide synthase expression and activity in developing and adult skeletal muscle. Tidball, James G., Eliane Lavergne, Kim S. Lau, Melissa J. Spencer, James T. Stull, and Michelle Wehling. Department of Physiological Science, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, Department of Physiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75235 APStracts 5:0095C, 1998.
• Effects of divalent cations on single-channel conduction properties of xenopus inositol trisphosphate receptor. Mak, Don-On Daniel, and J. Kevin Foskett. Department of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6100 APStracts 5:0096C, 1998.
• Role of laminin-1, collagen iv and an unidentified autocrine factor in regulated secretion by lacrimal acinar cells. Chen, Lanlin, J. Douglas Glass, Staci C. Walton, and Gordon W. Laurie. Department of Cell Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA APStracts 5:0097C, 1998.
• Rab11a redistributes to the apical secretory canaliculus during stimulation of gastric parietal cells. Calhoun, Benjamin C., Lynne A. Lapierre, Catherine S. Chew, and James R. Goldenring. Institute for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Departments of Medicine, Surgery and Cellular Biology & Anatomy, Medical College of Georgia, and the Augusta Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Augusta, GA 30912 APStracts 5:0098C, 1998.
• Expression of an aquaporin-2 cre recombinase transgene in kidney and male reproductive system of transgenic mice. Nelson, Raoul D., Peter Stricklett, Corrine Gustafson, Anna Stevens, Dennis Ausiello, Dennis Brown, & Donald E. Kohan[angstrom]a. Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT, 84148 & University of Utah Medical School, Salt Lake City, UT, 84132 and Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, 02129 APStracts 5:0099C, 1998.
• Modulation of potassium (k+) currents in monocytes by vcam-1 and e -selectin on activated human endothelium. Colden-Stanfield, Margaret, and Elaine K. Gallin. Department of Physiology, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30213, Women_s Health Initiative, State University of NY Health Science Ctr at Brooklyn, NY 11203 APStracts 5:0100C, 1998.
• The effect of in vivo corticosteroids on na+ transport across airway epithelium. Grubb, B. R., and R. C. Boucher. Cystic Fibrosis/Pulmonary Research and Treatment Center, 7011 Thurston-Bowles Bldg., CB# 7248, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7248 APStracts 5:0101C, 1998.
• Molecular mechanisms of impaired stimulation of dna synthesis in cultured hepatocytes of aged rats . Kitano, Shoichi, Timothy W. Fawcett, Yoshikage Yo, and George S. Roth. Molecular Physiology and Genetics Section, Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Gerontology Research Center, 5600 Nathan Shock Drive, Baltimore, Maryland 21224 APStracts 5:0102C, 1998.
• Expression of an aquaporin-2 cre recombinase transgene in kidney and male reproductive system of transgenic mice. Nelson, Raoul D., Peter Stricklett, Corrine Gustafson, Anna Stevens, Dennis Ausiello, Dennis Brown, & Donald E. Kohan. Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT, 84148 & University of Utah Medical School, Salt Lake City, UT, 84132 and Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, 02129 APStracts 5:0103C, 1998.
• Effects of divalent cations on single-channel conduction properties of xenopus inositol trisphosphate receptor. Mak, Don-On Daniel, and J. Kevin Foskett. Department of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6100 APStracts 5:0104C, 1998.
• Partial restoration of camp-stimulated cftr chloride channel activity in _f508 cells by deoxyspergualin. Jiang, Canwen, Shaona L. Fang, Yong F. Xiao, Sean P. O_connor, Steven G. Nadler, Des W. Lee, Douglas M. Jefferson, Johanne M. Kaplan, Alan E. Smith, and Seng H. Cheng. Genzyme Corporation, One Mountain Road, Framingham, Massachusetts 01701-9322, U.S.A., Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, Tufts University School of Medicine, Dept. of Physiology and New England Medical Center, Dept. of Pediatrics and Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02111 APStracts 5:0105C, 1998.
• L-arginine inhibits vasopressin-stimulated mesangial cell calcium. Balsam, Leah, and Nasrin Nikbakht. Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Nassau County Medical Center, East Meadow, N.Y. 11554 and SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, N.Y. 11794 APStracts 5:0106C, 1998.
• Ca2- and protein kinase c activation of mucin granule exocytosis in permeabilized spoc1 cells. Scott, C. E., Lubna H. Abdullah, and C. William Davis. Cystic Fibrosis/Pulmonary Research and Treatment Center and the Department of Physiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7248 APStracts 5:0107C, 1998.
• Identification of distinct ca++- and camp-dependent anion conductances in the apical membrane of polarized human intestinal t84 cells. Merlin, Didier, Lianwei Jiang, Gregg R. Strohmeier, Asma Nusrat, Seth L. Alper, Wayne I. Lencer, and James L. Madara. Division of Gastrointestinal Pathology, Department of Pathology, Brigham's and Women's Hospital; Molecular Medicine and Renal Units, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Combined Program in Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, Children_s Hospital Medical Center; the Departments of Pathology, Pediatrics, Cell Biology, and Medicine, Harvard Medical School; and the Harvard Digestive Diseases Center, Boston, MA 02115 APStracts 5:0108C, 1998.
• P38 mapk expression and activation in smooth muscle. Hedges, Jason C., Ilia A. Yamboliev, Mai Ngo, Burton Horowitz, Leonard P. Adam, and William T. Gerthoffer. Department of Pharmacology And Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, University of Nevada School of Medicine, Reno, NV 89557 -0046, Reno, NV 89557-0046 And Boston Biomedical Research Institute, 20 Staniford St., Boston, MA 02114 APStracts 5:0109C, 1998.
• Glutathione permeability of cftr. Linsdell, Paul, and John W. Hanrahan. Department of Physiology, McGill University, Montr[acute]eal, Qu[acute]ebec, Canada APStracts 5:0110C, 1998.
• Pkc regulation of cardiac cftr cl- channel function in guinea pig ventricular myocytes. Middleton, Lisa M., and Robert D. Harvey. Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106 APStracts 5:0111C, 1998.
• Topological analysis of nhe1, the ubiquitous na+/h+ exchanger, using chymotryptic cleavage. Shrode, Lamara D., Bing Siang Gan, Sudhir J. A. Dsouza, John Orlowski, and Sergio Grinstein. Division Cell Biology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1X8, Department Physiology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1Y6 APStracts 5:0112C, 1998.
• Glibenclamide blocks volume-sensitive cl- channels by dual mechanisms. Liu, Yan, Shigetoshi Oiki, Takehiko Tsumura, Takahiro Shimizu, and Yasunobu Okada. Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki 444-8585, and Department of Internal Medicine, Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto 606 -8501, Japan APStracts 5:0113C, 1998.
• Purification and functional reconstitution of an outwardly rectified chloride channel from bovine tracheal epithelia . Jovov, Biljana, Vadim Gh. Shlyonsky, Bakhram K. Berdiev, Iskander I. Ismailov, and Dale J. Benos. Department of Physiology and Biophysics University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294-0005 APStracts 5:0114C, 1998.
• Reaction of nitric oxide with superoxide inhibits basolateral k+ channels in the rat ccd. Lu, Ming, and Wenhui Wang. Department of Pharmacology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY 10595 APStracts 5:0115C, 1998.
• Human cytomegalovirus infection stimulates cl-/hco-3 exchanger activity in human fibroblasts. Maglova, Lilia M., William E. Crowe, An[acute]ibal A. Altamirano, and John M. Russell. Department of Physiology, Allegheny University of the Health Sciences, 2900 Queen Lane, Philadelphia, PA 19129, Tel. No. (215) 991-8402, FAX (215) 843-8493, e-mail: russell@auhs.edu APStracts 5:0116C, 1998.