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

The American Physiological Society

• Airway surface fluid volume and chloride content in cystic fibrosis and normal bronchial xenografts. Zhang, Yulong, and John F. Engelhardt. Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology and Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Iowa Medical School, Iowa City, Iowa1 APStracts 5:0303C, 1998.
• Effect of progesterone on intracellular Ca2+ homeostasis in human myometrial smooth muscle cells. Fomin, Victor P., Blair E. Cox, and R. Ann Word. Departments of 1Obstetrics and Gynecology and 2Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75235 APStracts 5:0304C, 1998.
• Resistance to TNF-[alpha] cytotoxicity can be achieved through different signaling pathways in rat mesangial cells. Guo, Yan-Lin, Baobin Kang, and John R. Williamson. Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 APStracts 5:0305C, 1998.
• Estrogen modulates paracellular permeability of human endothelial cells by eNOS- and iNOS-related mechanisms. Cho, Michael M., Nicholas P. Ziats, Dipika Pal, Wulf H. Utian, and George I. Gorodeski. Departments of 1Reproductive Biology, 2Pathology, and 3Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio 44106 APStracts 5:0306C, 1998.
• Hypoxemia in the absence of blood loss upregulates iNOS expression and activity in macrophages. Angele, Martin K., Martin G. Schwacha, Nadia Smail, Robert A. Catania, Alfred Ayala, William G. Cioffi, and Irshad H. Chaudry. Center for Surgical Research and Department of Surgery, Brown University School of Medicine and Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island 02903 APStracts 5:0307C, 1998.
• Functional interaction of the K-Cl cotransporter (KCC1) with the Na-K-Cl cotransporter. Gillen, Christopher M., and Bliss Forbush III. Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, 06520 APStracts 5:0308C, 1998.
• Identification of a putative [beta] subunit of rat colonic h,k -atpase in apical membranes and its regulation by dietary potassium depletion. Sangan, Pitchai, Sarah S. Kolla, Vazhaikkurichi M. Rajendran, Michael Kashgarian, and Henry J. Binder. Departments of Internal Medicine and Pathology Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA APStracts 5:0309C, 1998.
• Glucose induces an acute increase of superoxide dismutase activity in incubated rat pancreatic islets. Oliveira, Henriette R., Rui Curi, and Angelo R. Carpinelli. Departamento de Fisiologia e Biof[acute]isica, Instituto de Ci[circumflex]encias Biom[acute]edicas, Universidade de S_o Paulo, Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes, 1524, S_o Paulo, Brasil, 05508-900 APStracts 5:0310C, 1998.
• Functional consensus for mammalian osmotic response elements. Ferraris, Joan D., Chester K. Williams, Akihiko Ohtaka, and Arlyn Garc[acute]ia-P[acute]erez. Osmotic Regulation Section, Laboratory of Kidney and Electrolyte Metabolism, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-1603 APStracts 5:0311C, 1998.
• The contribution of mitochondrial proton leak to respiration rate in working skeletal muscle and liver and to standard metabolic rate.. Rolfe, David F. S., John M. B. Newman, Julie A. Buckingham, Michael G. Clark and Martin D. Brand. 1Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Rd., Cambridge CB2 1QW, U.K; 2Division of Biochemistry, University of Tasmania, GPO Box 252-58 Hobart, Tasmania, 7001 Australia. APStracts 5:0312C, 1998.
• Hypoxia induces permeability in brain microvessel endothelial cells via vascular endothelial growth factor and no. Fischer, Silvia, Matthias Clauss, Marion Wiesnet, Dieter Renz, Wolfgang Schaper and Gerhard F. Karliczek. Max-Planck Institute for Physiological and Clinical Research, a Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, b Department of Molecular Cell Biology, c Department of Experimental Cardiology, 61231 Bad Nauheim, Germany APStracts 5:0313C, 1998.
• Transport of fluid by lens epithelium. Fischbarg, Jorge, Friedrich P. J. Diecke, Kunyan Kuang, Bin Yu, Fengying Kang, Pavel Iserovich, Yansui Li, Heinz Rosskothen and Jan P. Koniarek. Departments of 1Physiology & Cellular Biophysics, and 2Ophthalmology, Columbia University, 630 West 168th Street, New York, NY, 10032; 3Dept. of Physiology, UMDNJ New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, 07103. APStracts 5:0314C, 1998.
• Effect of acidification on the location of h+-atpase in cultured inner medullary collecting duct cells. Alexander, Edward A., Dennis Brown, Theodora Shih, Mary McKee and John H. Schwartz. 1Renal Section, Boston University Medical Center and Depts. of Medicine, Physiology and Pathology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118-2908 and the 2Renal Unit and the Dept. of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02129 APStracts 5:0315C, 1998.
• Incubation of okp cells in low k media increases nhe3 activity following an early decrease in intracellular ph. Amemiya, Morimasa, Kaoru Tabei, Eiji Kusano, Yasushi Asano, Robert J. Alpern. Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Jichi Medical School, Tochigi, Japan, 329-0498 and The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center*, Dallas, TX 75235-8856 APStracts 5:0316C, 1998.
• Enhancement of endocytosis due to transport of aminophospholipids across the plasma membrane of living cells. Farge, Emmanuel, David M. Ojcius, Agathe Subtil, and Alice Dautry -Varsat. Unit[acute]e de Biologie des Interactions Cellulaires, Institut Pasteur, URA CNRS 1960, 25 rue du Docteur Roux, F-75724 Paris Cedex 15, France APStracts 5:0317C, 1998.
• Fiber-type populations and ca2+-activation properties of single fibers in soleus muscles from shr and wky rat. Bortolotto, Susan K., D. George Stephenson and Gabriela M. M. Stephenson. School of Life Sciences and Technology, Victoria University of Technology, PO Box 14428, MCMC, Melbourne, Victoria 8001, Australia and * School of Zoology, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia APStracts 5:0318C, 1998.
• Splicing of a retained intron within romk k+ channel rna generates a novel set of isoforms in rat kidney.. Beesley, A. H., B. Ortega & S. J. White. Laboratory for Membrane Protein Function, Department of Biomedical Science, The University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK. APStracts 5:0319C, 1998.
• Eosinophil peroxidase increases membrane permeability in mammalian urinary bladder epithelium. Kleine, Teri J., Gerald J. Gleich, and Simon A. Lewis. 1Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas 77555; 2Department of Immunology, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, Rochester, MI 55905 and S. A. Lewis, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Blvd., Galveston, TX 77555-0641. APStracts 5:0320C, 1998.
• Egf precursor mrna and membrane associated egf precursor protein in rat exorbital lacrimal gland. Mar[acute]echal, Herv[acute]e, H[acute]elene Jammes, Bernard Rossignol, and Philippe Mauduit. 1Laboratoire de Biochimie des Transports Cellulaires, CNRS, ERS 0571, Bat. 432, Universit[acute]e Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex; 2Unit[acute]e d'Endocrinologie Mol[acute]eculaire, Bat. des Biotechnologies, INRA, 78352 Jouy en Josas Cedex, France. APStracts 5:0321C, 1998.
• Direct evidence of na+-ca2+ exchange in squid rhabdomeric membranes. Bauer#, Paul J., Heike Schauf#, Andreas Schwarzer# and Joel E. Brown@. From the # Institut f. Biologische Informationsverarbeitung, Forschungszentrum J[umlaut]ulich, D-52425 J[umlaut]ulich, Germany and @ the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, U.S.A. APStracts 5:0322C, 1998.
• An analysis of chemokine expression in cf epithelia: implications for the role of cftr in rantes expression. Schwiebert, Lisa M., Kim Estell and Stacie M. Propst. Department of Physiology and Biophysics1 and The Gregory Fleming James Cystic Fibrosis Research Center2, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294 APStracts 5:0323C, 1998.
• Rat liver gtp-binding proteins mediate changes in mitochondrial membrane potential and organelle fusion. Cortese, Jorge Daniel. Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7090. APStracts 5:0324C, 1998.
• Polyamine depletion arrests cell cycle progression and induces inhibitors p21waf1/cip1, p27kip1 and p53 in iec-6 cells. Ray, Ramesh M., Barbara J. Zimmerman, Shirley A. McCormack, Tarun B. Patel and Leonard R. Johnson. Department of Physiology and Biophysics and Department of Pharmacology*, APStracts 5:0325C, 1998.
• Protein kinase c reduces the kca current of rat tail artery smooth muscle cells. Schubert, Rudolf, Thomas Noack, and Vladimir N. Serebryakov. University of Rostock, Institute of Physiology, PSF 100888, D-18055 Rostock, Germany, 1Institute of Experimental Cardiology, Cardiology Research Center, Academy of Medical Sciences, 3rd Cherepkovskaya Street 15A, 121552 Moscow, Russia APStracts 5:0326C, 1998.
• A3 adenosine receptors regulate cl- channels of nonpigmented ciliary epithelial cells. Mitchell, Claire H., Kim Peterson-Yantorno, David A. Carr[acute]e, Alice M. McGlinn, Miguel Coca-Prados, Richard A. Stone and Mortimer M. Civan. Departments of Physiologya, Ophthalmologyb and Medicined, APStracts 5:0327C, 1998.
• Regulation of lateral mobility and cellular trafficking of the cholecystokinin receptor by a partial agonist. Roettger, Belinda F., Delia I. Pinon, Thomas P. Burghardt, and Laurence J. Miller. Center for Basic Research in Digestive Diseases and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota 55905 APStracts 5:0328C, 1998.