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

The American Physiological Society

• Characterization of protein kinase a isoforms and kinase-dependent activation of chloride secretion in t84 cells. Singh, A. K., K. Taskn, W. Walker, R. A. Frizzell, S. C. Watkins, R. J. Bridges, and N. A. Bradbury. Department of Cell Biology & Physiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, USA 15261, Institute of Medical Biochemistry, University of Oslo, N-0317Oslo, Norway APStracts 5:0132C, 1998.
• Differential inhibition of na+/ca2+ exchanger isoforms by divalent cations and isothiourea derivative. Iwamoto, Takahiro, and Munekazu Shigekawa. Department of Molecular Physiology, National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Suita, Osaka 565, Japan APStracts 5:0133C, 1998.
• Intracellular ionic strength regulates the volume sensitivity of a swelling-activated anion channel. Cannon, Carolyn L., Srisaila Basavappa, and Kevin Strange. Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Departments of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, Division of Respiratory Diseases, Children_s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115 APStracts 5:0134C, 1998.
• Protein kinase c activity modulates availability and long openings of l-type calcium channels in resting a7r5 smooth muscle cells. Obejero-Paz, C. A., M. Auslender, and A. Scarpa. Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, Div. Pediatric Cardiology. School of Medicine. New York University APStracts 5:0135C, 1998.
• Regulation of sustained kca current by store-operated ca2+ influx in hsg cells is mediated via internal ca2+ release . Liu, Xibao, Eduardo Rojas, and Indu S. Ambudkar. Secretory Physiology Section, Gene Therapy and Therapeutics Branch, National Institute of Dental Research, and Laboratory of Cell Biology and Biochemistry, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 APStracts 5:0136C, 1998.
• Carbachol induced desensitization of phospholipase c[beta] pathway in rat myometrium. down-regulation of gq[alpha]/g11a. Lajat, Sandrine, Simone Harbon, and Zahra Tanfin. Signalisation et R[acute]egulations Cellulaires, CNRS, EP1088, Bat 430, Universit[acute]e Paris-Sud, 91405, ORSAY Cedex, France APStracts 5:0137C, 1998.
• Pharmacological and biophysical characterization of the cloned human intermediate-conductance ca2+-activated k+ channel. Jensen, Bo Skaaning, Dorte Str_baek, Palle Christophersen, Tino Dyhring J_rgensen, Claus Hansen, Asli Silahtaroglu_, S_ren-Peter Olesen & Philip Kiaer Ahring. NeuroSearch A/S, 26B Smedeland, DK-2600 Glostrup, #Department of Medical Genetics, Institute of Medical Biochemistry and Genetics, University of Copenhagen, 3 Blegdamsvej, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark and _Department of Genetics, Division of Biomedical Sciences, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Istanbul University, TR-34303 Istanbul, Turkey. APStracts 5:0138C, 1998.
• The extracellular-regulated protein kinase cascades are activated in response to injury in human skeletal muscle. Aronson, Doron, Jr.gen F. P. Wojtaszewski, Anders Thorell, Jonas Nygren, David Zangen, Erik A. Richter, Olle Ljungqvist, Roger A. Fielding, and Laurie J. Goodyear. Research Division, Joslin Diabetes Center, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women_s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, One Joslin Place, Boston MA 02215, Copenhagen Muscle Research Center, August Krogh Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Department of Surgery, Karolinska Hospital and Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, and the Department of Health Sciences, Sargent College of Allied Health Professions, Boston University, 635 Commonwealth Ave, Boston MA, 02215 APStracts 5:0139C, 1998.
• Two m-cat elements of the smooth muscle (sm) [alpha]-actin promoter function differentially in sm versus non-sm cells. Swartz, Ellen A., A. Daniel Johnson, and Gary K. Owens . Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia, School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA 22908 APStracts 5:0140C, 1998.
• Functional expression of putative h+,k+-atpase from guinea pig distal colon. Asano, Shinji, Satomi Hoshina, Yumi Nakaie, Toshiyuki Watanabe, Michihiko Sato, Yuichi Suzuki and Noriaki Takeguchi. 1Molecular Genetics Research Center and 2Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Toyama 930 -01, Japan, 3Department of Physiology and 4Central Laboratory for Research and Education, Yamagata University School of Medicine, Yamagata 990-23, Japan, 5Laboratory of Physiology, School of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka 422, Japan APStracts 5:0141C, 1998.
• Age-associated increase in prostaglandin e2 synthesis and cyclooxygenase activity in murine macrophages is reversed by vitamin e. Wu, Dayong, Casilda Mura, Alison A. Beharka, Sung Nim Han, K. Eric Paulson, Daniel Hwang, Simin Nikbin Meydani. Nutritional Immunology Laboratory, Jean Mayer Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, MA 02111, Centro de Estudios Cientificos de Santiago, Ave. Pte. Errazurriz 3132, Santiago 9, Chile, Genetics Laboratory, Jean Mayer Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, MA 02111, Departments of Biochemistry and Physiology, Tufts University, Boston, MA 02111, Pennington Biomedical Res. Center, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA 70808, Department of Pathology, Sackler Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University, Boston, MA 02111 APStracts 5:0142C, 1998.
• Correction for inner filter effects in turbid samples: fluorescence assays of mitochondrial nadh. French, Stephanie, Paul R. Territo, and Robert S. Balaban. Laboratory of Cardiac Energetics, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bldg 10 Room B1D-161, Bethesda MD 20892-1061, Tel: 301 -496-3658, Fax: 301-402-2389, email: rsb@zeus.nhlbi.nih.gov APStracts 5:0143C, 1998.
• Glp-1 action in l6 myotubes is via a different receptor than the pancreatic glp-1 receptor. Yang, H., J. M. Egan, Y. Wang, C. D. Moyes, J. Roth, M. H. Montrose, and C. Montrose-Rafizadeh. National Institute on Aging, NIH, Gerontology Research Center, Laboratory of Clinical Physiology, Baltimore, MD; Department of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada; Johns Hopkins University, Department of Medicine, Baltimore, MD APStracts 5:0144C, 1998.
• Prostaglandin f2[alpha] stimulates cftr activity by pka- and pkc -dependent phosphorylation. Yurko-Mauro, Karin A., and William W. Reenstra. Departments of Clinical Science and Pediatrics, Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Thomas Jefferson University, Wilmington, DE 19803 APStracts 5:0145C, 1998.
• Tissue distribution of immunoreactive mouse extracellular superoxide dismutase. Ookawara, Tomomi, Nobuo Imazeki, Osamu Matsubara, Takako Kizaki, Shuji Oh-Ishi, Chitose Nakao,yuzo Sato, and Hideki Ohno. Departments of Hygiene and Pathology II, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Saitama 359, Japan; Research Center of Health, Physical Fitness and Sports, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-01, Japan APStracts 5:0146C, 1998.
• Voltage-dependent block of endothelial volume-regulated anion channels by calix[4]arenes. Droogmans, Guy, Jean Prenen, Jan Eggermont, Thomas Voets, and Bernd Nilius. KU Leuven, Laboratorium voor Fysiologie, Campus Gasthuisberg, B -3000 LEUVEN, Belgium APStracts 5:0147C, 1998.
• Polarity, integrin and extracellular matrix dynamics IN THE POST -ISCHEMIC RAT KIDNEY. Zuk, Anna, Joseph V. Bonventre, Dennis Brown, and Karl S. Matlin. Renal Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA; Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Harvard -Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, MA; Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA APStracts 5:0148C, 1998.
• Exocytosis is not involved in activation of chloride secretion via cftr in calu-3 airway epithelial cells. Loffing, Johannes, Bryan D. Moyer, David McCoy, and Bruce A. Stanton. Department of Physiology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH 03755 USA APStracts 5:0149C, 1998.
• Localization and expression of aqp5 in cornea, serous salivary glands and pulmonary epithelial cells. Funakiab, Haruko, Tadashi Yamamotoa, Yu Koyamaa, Daisuke Kondoa, Eishin Yaoitaa, Katsutoshi Kawasakia, Hideyuki Kobayashia, Shoichi Sawaguchib, Haruki Abeb, Itaru Kiharaa. Department of Pathology, Institute of Nephrology and Department of Ophthalmology, Niigata University School of Medicine, Niigata, Japan APStracts 5:0150C, 1998.
• Effect of bcl-2 on oxidant-induced cell death and intracellular calcium mobilization. Ichimiya, Masato, Seung H. Chang, Hui Liu, Irene K. Berezesky, Benjamin F. Trump, and Paul A. Amstad. Department of Pathology, Room 7-23, MSTF, 10 South Pine Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, Tel: 410-706-3275, Fax: 410-706-8414, Department of Pathology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201 APStracts 5:0151C, 1998.
• Control of amp deaminase 1 binding to myosin heavy chain. Hisatome(, Ichiro, Takayuki Morisaki(, Hiroshi Kamma(, Takako Sugama, Hiroko Morisaki, Akira Ohtahara and Edward W. Holmes. 1 Departments of Medicine, Genetics, and Biochemistry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 2 Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 3 The 1st Department of Medicine, Tottori University Faculty of Medicine, Yonago, 683, Japan, ( Current address for Dr. Hisatome: 1st Department of Medicine, Tottori, University Faculty of Medicine, Nishimachi 36-1, Yonago 683, Japan, ( Current address for Dr. Kamma: Department of Pathology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8575, Japan, ( Current address for Dr. Morisaki: Department of Bioscience, National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Osaka, Japan APStracts 5:0152C, 1998.
• Regulation of apical membrane na+/h+ exchangers nhe2 and nhe3 in an intestinal epithelial cell line c2/bbe. McSwine, Rebecca L., Mark W. Musch, Crescence Bookstein, Yue Xie, Mrinalini Rao and Eugene B. Chang. 1Section of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637 and 2Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612 APStracts 5:0153C, 1998.
• Conductive pathways for chloride and oxalate in rabbit ileal brush border membrane vesicles. Freel, Robert W., Marguerite Hatch, and N. D. Vaziri. Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA 92717 APStracts 5:0154C, 1998.
• Inducible expression of protein kinase c[alpha] suppresses steroidogenesis in y1 adrenocortical cells. Williams+, Mary E. Reyland David L., and Elizabeth K. White. *Department of Basic Science and Oral Research, School of Dentistry, University of Colorado, Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO 80262 and +Department of Pharmacological Sciences, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794 APStracts 5:0155C, 1998.
• Differences in contractile protein content and isoforms in phasic and tonic smooth muscles. Szymanski, Pawel T., Thomas K. Chacko, Arthur S. Rovner and Raj. K. Goyal. 1Center for Swallowing and Motility Disorders, Harvard Medical School, West Roxbury VA Medical Center, West Roxbury, MA 02132, USA, 2Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Vermont, College of Medicine, D-212 Given Bldg., Burlington, VT 05405-0068, USA APStracts 5:0156C, 1998.
• Interstitial atp level and degradation in control and post -myocardial infarcted rats. Kuzmin, Alexander I., Vladimir L. Lakomkin, Valeri I. Kapelko, and Guy Vassort. 1Institute of Experimental Cardiology, National Cardiology Research Center, Moscow, Russia; and 2Laboratoire de Physiopathologie Cardiovasculaire, INSERM U-390, Montpellier, France APStracts 5:0157C, 1998.
• The mechanism of il-5 signal transduction.. Adachi, Tetsuya, and Rafeul Alam. The University of Texas Medical Branch, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Allergy & Immunology, Galveston, TX 77555 -0762 APStracts 5:0158C, 1998.
• Induction of mnsod in human monocytes without inflammatory cytokine production by a mutant endotoxin. Tian, Licheng, Julie E. White, Hung-Yun Lin, Visa S. Haran, Joseph Sacco, G. Chikkappa, Faith B. Davis, Paul J. Davis, and Min-Fu Tsan,. Research1 and Medical2 Services, Stratton VA Medical Center, and Departments of Medicine3, Physiology and Cell Biology4, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY 12208, USA. APStracts 5:0159C, 1998.
• Mechanical loading regulates the expression of talin and its mrna which are concentrated at myotendinous junctions. Frenette, J[acute]er[circumflex]ome, and James G. Tidball. Department of Physiological Science, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1524 APStracts 5:0160C, 1998.
• The opt1 gene of drosophila melanogaster encodes a proton dependent dipeptide transporter.. Roman, Gregg, Victoria Meller, Kwok Hang Wu, and Ronald L. Davis . Department of Cell Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston Tx 77030. APStracts 5:0161C, 1998.
• Pka induces calcium release and enhances ciliary beat frequency in a calcium dependent and independent manner.. Braiman, Alex, Orna Zagoory, and Zvi Priel. Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University, P.O. Box 653, Beer -Sheva, 84105, ISRAEL APStracts 5:0162C, 1998.
• Effect of intracellular ph on acetylcholine-induced ca2+ waves in mouse pancreatic acinar cells.. Gonz[acute]alez, Antonio, Fatima Pfeiffer, Andreas Schmid, and Irene Schulz. Department of Physiology II., University of Saarland, D-66421 Homburg/Saar, Germany. APStracts 5:0163C, 1998.
• Expression of myosin isoforms in smooth muscle cells in the corpus cavernosum penis. Disanto, Michael E., Ze Wang, Chandrakala Menon, Yongmu Zheng, Thomas Chacko, Joseph Hypolite, Gregory Broderick, Alan J. Wein and Samuel Chacko,. 1 Division of Urology, University of Pennsylvania, 2Department of Pathobiology, University of Pennsylvania APStracts 5:0164C, 1998.
• Regulation by retinoids of p2y2 nucleotide receptor mrna in human uterine cervical cells. Gorodeski, George I., ! Peter Burfeind, Shu Uin Gan, Dipika Pal, and + Fadi W. Abdul-Karim. Departments of Reproductive Biology*, Physiology and Biophysics0 and Pathology+, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio APStracts 5:0165C, 1998.
• Dichotomous development of the organic anion transport protein in liver and choroid plexus. Angeletti, Ruth Hogue, Ari J. Bergwerk, Phyllis M. Novikoff and Allan W. Wolkoff,. Departments of Developmental and Molecular Biology1, Medicine2, and Pathology3, and the Marion Bessin Liver Research Center4, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx NY 10461 APStracts 5:0166C, 1998.
• Mechanism of depression in cardiac sarcolemmal na+-k+ atpase by hypochlorous acid. Kato, Kiminori, Qiming Shao, Vijayan Elimban, Anton Lukas, and Naranjan S. Dhalla. Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, St. Boniface General Hospital Research Centre and Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada APStracts 5:0167C, 1998.
• Rho gtpase signaling regulates tight junction assembly and protects tight junctions during atp-depletion induced cellular injury.. Gopalakrishnan, Shobha, Narayan Raman, Simon J. Atkinson, and James A. Marrs. Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Indiana University Medical Center, Fesler Hall 115, 1120 South Drive, Indianapolis, IN 46202-5116 APStracts 5:0168C, 1998.
• Stimulation of na+-k+-2cl- cotransporter in neuronal cells by excitatory neurotransmitter glutamate. Sun, Dandan, and Sangita G. Murali . 1 Department of Neurological Surgery and 2 Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53792 APStracts 5:0169C, 1998.
• Ascorbate and glutathione homeostasis in human vascular smooth muscle cells: co-operative interactions with endothelial cells. Voskoboinik, Ilia, Karin S[diaeresis]oderholm, and Ian A Cotgreave. Division of Biochemical Toxicology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Box 210, 17177 Stockholm, Sweden APStracts 5:0170C, 1998.