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

The American Physiological Society

• Tyrosine confounds oxidative electrochemical detection of nitric oxide. Stingele, R., D. A. Wilson, R. J. Traystman, D. F. Hanley. Departments of Neurology and Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 21287 APStracts 5:0047H, 1998.
• Flow generating capability of the isolated skeletal muscle pump. Sheriff, Don D., and Richard Van Bibber. Flight Motion Effects Branch, Air Force Research Laboratory, Brooks Air Force Base, San Antonio, TX 78235. Department of Physiology and Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195 APStracts 5:0048H, 1998.
• Endogenous calcitonin gene-related peptide modulates tachycardiac but not bradycardiac baroreflex in the rat. Kim, Seungbum, Yasuyoshi Ouchi, Hiromichi Sekiguchi, Hideyuki Fujikawa, Kazuyuki Shimada, and Kinji Yagi. Departments of Physiology and Cardiology, Jichi Medical School, Minamikawachi, Tochigi 329-04, Japan. Department of Geriatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan APStracts 5:0049H, 1998.
• Age-dependent responses of the mesenteric vasculature to ischemia -reperfusion. Harris, Norman R., and Kimberly W. Langlois. Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Louisiana State University Medical Center, Shreveport, LA APStracts 5:0050H, 1998.
• Ventricular remodeling in a mouse model of myocardial infarction. Patten, Richard D., Mark J. Aronovitz, Luz Deras-Mejia, Natesa G. Pandian, George G. Hanak, John J. Smith, Michael E. Mendelsohn, Marvin A. Konstam. Division of Cardiology and The Molecular Cardiology Research Institute, Department of Medicine, New England Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine Boston, Massachusetts APStracts 5:0051H, 1998.
• Interaction between cerebral autoregulation, co2 reactivity and intracranial pressure: a mathematical model. Ursino, Mauro, and Carlo Alberto Lodi. Department of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems, University of Bologna, viale Risorgimento 2, I 40136 Bologna, Italy APStracts 5:0052H, 1998.
• Modeling cerebral autoregulation and co2 reactivity in patients with severe head injury. Lodi, Carlo Alberto, Aram Ter Minassian, Laurent Beydon, Mauro Ursino. Department of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems, University of Bologna, Viale Risorgimento 2, I 40136 Bologna, Italy. Surgical Intensive Care Unit and Department of Neurosurgery, Henri Mondor Hospital, 51 avenue du Marechal de Lattre de Tassigny, 94010 Creteil, France. APStracts 5:0053H, 1998.
• End-systolic stress-velocity and pressure-dimension relationships by transthoracic echocardiography in mice. Williams, Richard V., John N. Lorenz, Sandra A. Witt, David T. Hellard, Philip R. Khoury, Thomas R. Kimball. Noninvasive Cardiac Imaging and Hemodynamic Research Laboratory, Division of Cardiology and the Mouse Physiology Core Facility, Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine APStracts 5:0054H, 1998.
• Acute and chronic hypokalemia sensitize the isolated heart to hypoxic injury. Shapiro, Joseph I., Anirban Banerjee, Oscar K. Reiss, and Nancy Elkins. Departments of Medicine and Pharmacology, Medical College of Ohio, and Department of Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine APStracts 5:0055H, 1998.
• Gene-targeted mice reveal the importance of l-selectin dependent rolling for neutrophil adhesion in vivo. Jung, Unsu, Carroll L. Ramos, Daniel C. Bullard, and Klaus Ley. Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA 22908. Department. of Comparative Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294 APStracts 5:0056H, 1998.
• Arterial baroreflex during pregnancy and renal sympathetic nerve activity during parturition in rabbits. O'hagan, Kathleen P., and Susan M. Casey. Department of Physiology, Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine, Midwestern University, Downers Grove, IL 60515 APStracts 5:0057H, 1998.
• Degranulation enhances the release of a stable contractile factor from rabbit polymorphonuclear leukocytes. Hamilton, Justin R., Joanne L. Hart, and Owen L. Woodman. Department of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3052 APStracts 5:0058H, 1998.
• In vivo and in vitro mechanical properties of the sheep thoracic aorta in the perinatal period and adulthood. Wells, Sarah M., B. Lowell Langille, and S. Lee Adamson. Departments of Metallurgy and Materials Science, Pathology, and Obstetrics and Gynecology, and the Centre for Biomaterials, University of Toronto, The Centre for Cardiovascular Research, Max Bell Research Centre, The Toronto Hospital, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada APStracts 5:0059H, 1998.
• Multiple effects of the kpq deletion mutation on the gating of human cardiac sodium channels expressed in mammalian cells. Chandra, Rashmi, Starmer, C Frank, Grant, Augustus O. Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC USA APStracts 5:0060H, 1998.
• Atp - dependent k+ channel activation reduces loss of opioid dilation after brain injury. Armstead, William M. Departments of Anesthesia and Pharmacology, University of Pennsylvania and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104 APStracts 5:0061H, 1998.
• Vegf and bfgf stimulate myocardial vascularization in embryonic chick. Tomanek, Robert J., Kapildeo Lotun, Edward B. Clark, Padma R. Suvarna, Norman Hu. Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, and The Cardiovascular Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; and Department of Pediatrics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY APStracts 5:0062H, 1998.
• Effect of chronic sensory denervation on ca2+-induced relaxation of isolated mesenteric resistance arteries. Mupanomunda, Maria M., Yanlin Wang, and Richard D. Bukoski. Section of Hypertension and Vascular Research Departments of Internal Medicine, Physiology and Molecular Biophysics and Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston Island, Texas, 77555-1065 APStracts 5:0063H, 1998.
• Inhibition of nitric oxide synthesis increases venular permeability and alters endothelial actin cytoskeleton. Baldwin, Ann L., Gavin Thurston, and Hamda Al Naemi. Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85724-5051. Department of Anatomy, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143-0452 APStracts 5:0064H, 1998.
• Regional expansion during myocardial ischemia predicts ventricular fibrillation and coronary reocclusion. Barrab[acute]es, Jos[acute]e A., David Garcia-Dorado, Miguel A. Gonz[acute]alez, Marisol Ruiz-Meana, Julia Solares, Yolanda Puigfel, and Jordi Soler-Soler. Servicio de Cardiolog[acute]ia, Hospital General Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain 08035; and Departamento de Anatom[acute]ia Patol[acute]ogica, Hospital San Pedro de Alc[acute]antara, C[acute]aceres, Spain 10003 APStracts 5:0065H, 1998.
• Magnetic resonance myocardial fiber orientation mapping with direct histological correlation. Hsu, E. W., A. L. Muzikant, S. A. Matulevicius, R. C. Penland, C. S. Henriquez. Center for In Vivo Microscopy, Duke University Medical Center, and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina APStracts 5:0066H, 1998.
• Microvascular permeability and number of tight junctions are modulated by camp. Adamson, R. H., B. Liu, G. Nilson Fry, L. L. Rubin, F. E. Curry. Department of Human Physiology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA 95616; Eisai London Research Laboratories Ltd, University College London, London U.K. WC1E 6BT APStracts 5:0067H, 1998.
• Locally triggered release of neurotransmitters from perivascular nerves contributes to cortical spreading depression associated hyperemia in rats. Reuter, Uwe, Joerg R. Weber, Lorenz Gold, Guy Arnold, Tilo Wolf, Jens Dreier, Ute Lindauer, and Ulrich Dirnagl. Charit[acute]e Hospital, Department of Neurology, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany APStracts 5:0068H, 1998.
• Determinants of action potential initiation in isolated rabbit atrial and ventricular myocytes. Golod, David A., Rajiv Kumar, and Ronald W. Joyner. Todd Franklin Cardiac Research Laboratory, The Children's Heart Center, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA APStracts 5:0069H, 1998.
• Water channel proteins in rat cardiac myocyte caveolae: osmolarity -dependent reversible internalization. Page, Ernest, Jeffrey Winterfield, Gwendolyn Goings, Amir Basiawrous, Judy Upshaw-Earley, and Donald Doyle. Departments of Medicine and Pharmacological and Physiological Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637 APStracts 5:0070H, 1998.
• Modulation of myofilament ca2+ sensitivity in pressurized cerebral arteries by temperature and protein kinase c. Gokina, Natalia I., and George Osol. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The University of Vermont, College of Medicine, Burlington, VT 05405. APStracts 5:0071H, 1998.
• Effects of b-adrenoceptor stimulation on contractility, [ca2+[ cb]i, and ca2+ c current in diabetic rat cardiomyocytes. Tamada, Atsushi, Yuichi Hattori, Hideki Houzen, Yoichi Yamada, Ichiro Sakuma, Akira Kitabatake, and Morio Kanno. Departments of Pharmacology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo 060, Japan APStracts 5:0072H, 1998.
• Cyclic-gmp modulates basal and activated microvessel permeability independently of [ca2+]i. He, P., M. Zeng, and F. E. Curry. Department of Human Physiology, School of Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95616 APStracts 5:0073H, 1998.
• Disparate effects of biphasic and monophasic shocks on post-shock refractory period dispersion. Sims, J. Jason, Allison P. Winecoff, and Michael R. Ujhelyi. University of Georgia College of Pharmacy, Medical College of Georgia, and Augusta VA Medical Center, Augusta, Georgia 30912 APStracts 5:0074H, 1998.