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

The American Physiological Society

• Activation of erk by calcium store depletion in rat liver epithelial cells. Maloney, Judith A., Oxana M. Tsygankova, Lijun Yang, Qiuyang Li, Agnieszka Szot, Kemal Baysal, and John R. Williamson. Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 APStracts 5:0279C, 1998.
• Endocytosis at the apical plasma membrane of pancreatic acinar cells is regulated by tyrosine kinases. Freedman, Steven D., Mark H. Katz, Eliza M. Parker, and Andres Gelrud. The Pancreas Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215 APStracts 5:0280C, 1998.
• Mechanical stress-induced ca2+ entry and cl- current in cultured human aortic endothelial cells. Nakao, Miki, Kyoichi Ono, Susumu Fujisawa, and Toshihiko Iijima. Department of Pharmacology, Akita University School of Medicine, 1 -1-1 Hondoh, Akita 010-8543, Japan APStracts 5:0281C, 1998.
• Imaging of intracellular calcium stores in single permeabilized lens cells. Churchill, Grant C., and Charles F. Louis. Department of Biochemistry, 140 Gortner Lab, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, Department of Veterinary PathoBiology, 1988 Fitch Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55108 APStracts 5:0282C, 1998.
• Egf induces nuclear translocation of stat2 without tyrosine phosphorylation in intestinal epithelial cells. Johnson, Leonard R., Shirley A. McCormack, Chuan-He Yang, Susan R. Pfeffer and Lawrence M. Pfeffer. 1Department of Physiology and Biophysics and 2Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee 38163 APStracts 5:0283C, 1998.
• Hypoxia-induced expression of complement receptor type 1 (cr1, cd35) in human vascular endothelial cells. Collard, Charles D., Cuneyt Bukusoglu, Azin Agah, Sean P. Colgan, Wende R. Reenstra(, B. Paul Morgan(( and Gregory L. Stahl(. Center for Experimental Therapeutics and Reperfusion Injury Department of Anesthesia Brigham & Women_s Hospital Harvard Medical School Boston, MA, Department of Dermatology Boston (Mass) University School of Medicine Boston, MA( and Department of Medical Biochemistry University of Wales College of Medicine Cardiff, Wales(( APStracts 5:0284C, 1998.
• Genetic and biochemical determinants of abnormal monovalent ion transport in primary hypertension. Orlov, Sergei N., #), Norma C. Adragna), Viacheslav A. Adarichev@) and Pavel Hamet. 1)Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Centre de Recherche de L_Universite de Montreal, Campus Hotel-Dieu, PQ, Canada; 2)Laboratory of Biomembranes, Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, Russia; and 3) Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA APStracts 5:0285C, 1998.
• Intracellular h+ regulates the [alpha] subunit of enac, the epithelial sodium channel. Chalfant, Michael L., Jerod S. Denton, Bakhram K. Berdiev, Iskander I. Ismailov, Dale J. Benos and Bruce A. Stanton. 1Department of Physiology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH 03755 and 2Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35233 APStracts 5:0286C, 1998.
• Adenosine and its nucleotides activate wild-type and r117h cftr through an a2b adenosine receptor-coupled pathway. Clancy, John P., Fadel E. Ruiz, Eric J. Sorscher,. Departments of 1Pediatrics, 2Medicine and 3Gregory Fleming James Cystic Fibrosis Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1918 University Blvd., Birmingham, AL 35294-0005 USA APStracts 5:0287C, 1998.
• Gaip, a g[alpha]i-3-binding protein, is associated with golgi -derived vesicles and is involved in protein trafficking.. Wylie, Fiona, Kirsten Heimann, Christopher Le, Darren Brown, Glenn Rabnott, and Jennifer L. Stow. Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia. APStracts 5:0288C, 1998.
• Phosphorylation of p-glycoprotein by pka and pkc modulates swelling-activated cl- currents by different mechanisms. Vanoye, Carlos G., Castro, Ariel F., Pourcher, Thierry, Reuss, Luis and Altenberg, Guillermo A. 1Department of Physiology and Biophysics, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas 77555-0641, USA. and 2Laboratoire Jean Maetz, CEA-CNRS, BP68, 06230, Villefranche sur mer, cedex, France. APStracts 5:0289C, 1998.
• Polyamine depletion alters the relationship between f-actin, g -actin, and thymosin #4 in migrating iec-6 cells. McCormack, Shirley A., Ramesh M. Ray, Patrick M. Blanner, and Leonard R. Johnson. Department of Physiology and Biophysics, College of Medicine, University of Tennessee, Memphis APStracts 5:0290C, 1998.
• Cadherin function during dynamic junctional complex rearrangement, and posttranslational control of cadherin expression levels.. Troxell, Megan L., Yih-Tai Chen, Nicole Cobb, W. James Nelson and James A. Marrs. #Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Beckman Center B109, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305 -5426, *Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Fesler Hall 115, 1120 South Drive, Indianapolis, IN 46202-5116 APStracts 5:0291C, 1998.
• Synthesis and characterization of dual-wavelength chloride sensitive fluorescent indicators for ratio imaging. Jayaraman, Sujatha, Joachim Biwersi, and A. S. Verkman. Departments of Medicine and Physiology, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 94143-0521, USA APStracts 5:0292C, 1998.
• Activation of mechanosensitive currents in traumatized membrane. Wan, Xiaodong, Peter Juranka, and Catherine E Morris. Neurosciences, Loeb Health Research Institute, Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1Y 4E9 APStracts 5:0293C, 1998.
• Chemical signaling from colonic smooth muscle cells to drg neurons in culture. Ennes, H. S., S. H. Young, J. A. Goliger, and E. A. Mayer. CURE Digestive Diseases Research Center/Neuroenteric Disease Program, and Departments of Physiology and Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90024 APStracts 5:0294C, 1998.
• Prolonged contraction-relaxation cycle of fast-twitch muscles in parvalbumin-knock-out mice. Schwaller, B., J. Dick, G. Dhoot, S. Carroll, G. Vrbova, P. Nicotera, D. Pette, A. Wyss, H. Bluethmann, W. Hunziker and M. R. Celio. 1Institute of Histology & General Embryology and "Program in Neuroscience", University of Fribourg, CH-1705 Fribourg, Switzerland 2Dept. of Anatomy, University College, London, 3Royal Veterinary College, London, 4Inst of Toxicology, Faculty of Biology, University of Constance, Germany, 5Roche Vitamins Division, Hoffmann -LaRoche Ltd., 4070 Basel, Switzerland. APStracts 5:0295C, 1998.
• Phenotypic abnormalities in macrophages from leptin-deficient, obese mice. Lee, Fung_-Yee Janet, Yunbo Li, Eun K. Yang, Shi Qi Yang, Hui Zhi Lin, Michael A. Trush, Andrew J. Dannenberg and Anna Mae Diehl. Departments of Medicine1 and Environmental Health2, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD and Department of Medicine, Cornell University Medical College and Strang Cancer Prevention Center, New York, NY3 APStracts 5:0296C, 1998.
• Oxygen modulates sodium absorption in middle ear epithelium. Portier, F., T. Van Den Abbeele, E. Lecain, E. Sauvaget, B. Escoubet, P. Tran Ba Huy, P. Herman . Laboratoire d'Otologie Exp[acute]erimentale, Facult[acute]e Lariboisi[grave]ere-St-Louis, Universit[acute]e Paris VII, Paris, France and 2 Department of Physiology, INSERM U 426, Facult[acute]e Xavier Bichat, Universit[acute]e Paris VII, Paris, France˙2E APStracts 5:0297C, 1998.
• Preservation of murine embryos in a state of dormancy at 4 degrees C. Wiggins, Philippa M., Jamie Rowlandson, and Alexander B. Ferguson. Department of Medicine, University of Auckland School of Medicine, Auckland 1003, New Zealand APStracts 5:0298C, 1998.
• Cloning and characterization of a human electrogenic na/hco3 cotransporter isoform (hhnbc). Choi, Inyeong, Michael F. Romero, Nassirah Khandoudi, Antoine Bril and Walter F. Boron. 1Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520; and 2Department of Cardiovascular Pharmacology, SmithKline Beecham, Laboratory Pharmaceutiques, 35760 Saint Gr[acute]egoire, France APStracts 5:0299C, 1998.
• Cellular microbiology: can we learn cell physiology from microorganisms?. Fasano, Alessio, M.d. Department of Pediatrics and Physiology, andGastrointestinal, Pathophysiology Section, Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21201 APStracts 5:0300C, 1998.
• Ca2+ sensitization of smooth muscle contractility induced by ruthenium red. Yamada, Aki, Susumu Ohya, Masaru Hirano, Minoru Watanabe, Michael P. Walsh and Yuji Imaizumi. 1Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 2Department of Chemical Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagoya City University, Nagoya 467-8603, Japan and 3Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 4N1, Canada APStracts 5:0301C, 1998.
• The physiologic significance of volume-regulatory transporters. O'neill, W. Charles. Renal Division, Department of Medicine, and Department of Physiology, Emory University School of Medicine APStracts 5:0302C, 1998.