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

The American Physiological Society

• A new method to measure regional myocardial time-varying elastance using minute vibration. Shishido, Toshiaki, Masaru Sugimachi, Osamu Kawaguchi, Hiroshi Miyano, Toru Kawada, Wataru Matsuura, Yasuhiro Ikeda, Takayuki Sato, Joe Alexander, Jr., Kenji Sunagawa. Institution: Department of Cardiovascular Dynamics, National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Suita, Osaka 565, Japan and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235 APStracts 5:0001H, 1998.
• Pressure-permeability relationships in basement membrane: the effects of static and dynamic pressures.. Klaentschi, Karel, J. Anne Brown, Angela C. Shore, and John E. Tooke. Department of Vascular Medicine, Postgraduate Medical School, Barrack Road, Exeter EX2 5AX, U.K. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Exeter, Prince of Wales Road, Exeter EX4 4PS, U.K. APStracts 5:0002H, 1998.
• Cardiac myocyte calcium transport in phospholamban knockout mouse: relaxation and endogenous camkii effects. Li, Li, Guoxiang Chu, Evangelia G. Kranias, and Donald M. Bers. Department of Physiology, Loyola University Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, IL 60153. Department of Pharmacology and Cell Biophysics, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45267 APStracts 5:0003H, 1998.
• Effects of left ventricular hypertrophy on force and ca2+ handling in isolated rat myocardium. Maier, Lars S., Rolf Brandes, Burkert Pieske, and Donald M. Bers. Department of Physiology, Loyola University Chicago, 2160 South First Avenue, Maywood, Illinois 60153, USA; and Medizinische Klinik III, Universit[umlaut]at Freiburg, Hugstetter Strasse 55, 79106 Freiburg, Germany APStracts 5:0004H, 1998.
• The hemodynamic effects of nitric oxide synthase inhibition before and after cardiac arrest in infant piglets. Schleien, Charles L., John W. Kuluz, Barry Gelman. Pediatrics and Anesthesiology, Clinical Pediatrics, Clinical Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Critical Care Medicine, University of Miami School of Medicine APStracts 5:0005H, 1998.
• In vivo murine left ventricular pressure-volume relations by miniaturized conductance-micromanometry. Georgakopoulos, Dimitrios, Wayne A. Mitzner, Chen-Huan Chen, Barry J. Byrne, Huntly D. Millar, Joshua M. Hare, David A. Kass. Department of Medicine and Division of Physiology, Schools of Medicine and Public Health, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 21287 APStracts 5:0006H, 1998.
• Temporally localized contributions to measures of large scale heart rate variability. Roach, Daniel, Aaron Sheldon, Wendy Wilson, and Robert Sheldon. Cardiovascular Research Group, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada APStracts 5:0007H, 1998.
• Energy provision from glycogen, glucose and fatty acids upon adrenergic stimulation of isolated working rat heart. Goodwin, Gary W., Faisal Ahmad, Torsten Doenst, and Heinrich Taegtmeyer. The University of Texas-Houston Medical School, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, 6431 Fannin, Houston TX 77030 APStracts 5:0008H, 1998.
• Incomplete global cerebral ischemia alters platelet biology in neonatal and adult sheep . Littleton-Kearney, Marguerite T., Patricia D. Hurn, Thomas S. Kickler, and Richard J. Traystman. Department of Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine, Blalock 1404 The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N Wolfe St., Baltimore, MD 21287 -2725 APStracts 5:0009H, 1998.
• Pentoxifylline attenuates reperfusion injury in skeletal muscle following partial ischemia. Kishi, Masashi, Hiroshi Tanaka, Akitoshi Seiyama, Makoto Takaoka, Tetsuya Matsuoka, Toshiharu Yoshioka, and Hisashi Sugimoto. Departments of Traumatology and Physiology, Osaka University Medical School, Osaka 565, Japan. Department of Anesthesiology, Saint Louis University, Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, 3635 Vista Ave. at Grand Blvd., PO Box 15250, St. Louis, MO 63110-0250. TEL: 314-577-8750 FAX: 314-268-5102, E-mail: kishima@wpogate.slu.edu APStracts 5:0010H, 1998.
• A multi-unit model of solute and water removal by inner medullary vasa recta. Edwards, Aur[acute]elie, and Thomas L. Pallone. Department of Chemical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, Division of Nephrology, University of Maryland School of Medicine APStracts 5:0011H, 1998.
• Step baroreflex response in the awake patient undergoing carotid surgery: time and frequency domain analysis. Landesberg, Giora, Dan Adam, Yacov Berlatzky, and Solange Akselrod. Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Hebrew University - Hadassah Hospital, Jerusalem Israel. Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Technion - Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. Department of Vascular Surgery and Transplantation, Hebrew University - Hadassah Hospital, Jerusalem Israel. Department of Medical Physics, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel APStracts 5:0012H, 1998.
• Mechanism of volume adaptation in the awake early pregnant rat. Verkeste, Carla M, Brigitte Fm Slangen, Marie-Louise Dubelaar, Bernard K Van Kreel, Louis Lh Peeters. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Universiteit Maastricht and department of Clinical Chemistry, University Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands. APStracts 5:0013H, 1998.
• Frequency response characteristics of sympathetically-mediated vasomotor waves in humans. Stauss, Harald M., Erling A. Anderson, William G. Haynes, and Kevin C. Kregel. Departments of Exercise Science, Anesthesia, and Internal Medicine, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, and Department of Physiology, Humboldt University Charit'e, Berlin, Germany APStracts 5:0014H, 1998.
• Simplification of the quasiperiodic route to chaos in agonist -induced vasomotion by iterative circle maps. D, S De Brouwer, H Edwards & T M Griffith. Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Cardiovascular Sciences Research Group, University of Wales College of Medicine, Heath Park, Cardiff, UK, CF4 4XN APStracts 5:0015H, 1998.
• Local l-name decreases blood flow and increases leukocyte adhesion via cd-18. Mitchell, Debra J., Jingcheng Yu, and Karel Tyml. Departments of Pharmacology and Toxicology, and Medical Biophysics, University of Western Ontario, and A.C. Burton Vascular Lab, London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario, Canada APStracts 5:0016H, 1998.
• Cardiovascular responses attenuate with repeated nitric oxide s ynthesis inhibition in conscious fetal sheep. Chlorakos, A., B. L. Langille, and S. L. Adamson. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Toronto, and Program in Development and Fetal Health, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada, M5G 1X5. APStracts 5:0017H, 1998.
• Intracellular calcium dynamics in mouse model of myocardial stunning. Hampton, Thomas G., Ivo Amende, Kerry E. Travers, and James P. Morgan. The Charles A. Dana Research Institute and Harvard-Thorndike Laboratories, Cardiovascular Division of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA APStracts 5:0018H, 1998.
• Effective diffusion distance of nitric oxide in microcirculation. Vaughn, Mark W., Lih Kuo, and James C. Liao. Department of Chemical Engineering, Department of Medical Physiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095-1592 APStracts 5:0019H, 1998.
• 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 5:0020H, 1998.
• Ca flux, contractility and excitation-contraction coupling in hypertrophic rat ventricular myocytes.. McCall, Eileen, Kenneth S. Ginsburg, Rosana A. Bassani, Thomas R. Shannon, Ming Qi, Allen M. Samarel & Donald M. Bers. Departments of Physiology and Medicine, Loyola University Medical Center, 2160 South First Avenue, Maywood, Illinois 60153. APStracts 5:0021H, 1998.
• Ischemia-induced phosphorylation and translocation of the stress protein [alpha]b-crystallin to z-lines of the myocardium. Golenhofen, Nikola, Winfried Ness, Rainer Koob, Patrik Htun, Wolfgang Schaper, and Detlev Drenckhahn. Institute of Anatomy, Julius-Maximilians-University, Koellikerstr. 6, D-97070 W[umlaut]urzburg, Germany. Max-Planck-Institut, Department of Experimental Cardiology, Benekestr. 2, D-61231 Bad Nauheim, Germany APStracts 5:0022H, 1998.
• Cholinergic nerve function in monkey ciliary arteries innervated by nitroxidergic nerve. Toda, Noboru, Megumi Toda, Kazuhide Ayajiki & Tomio Okamura. Department of Pharmacology, Shiga University of Medical Sciences, Seta, Ohtsu 520-21, Japan APStracts 5:0023H, 1998.
• Inhibition of myocardial glucose uptake by cyclic gmp. Depre, Christophe, Vinciane Gaussin, Sylvie Ponchaut, Yvan Fischer, Jean-Louis Vanoverschelde, and Louis Hue. Hormone and Metabolic Research Unit, International Institute of Cellular and Molecular Pathology, Division of Cardiology, Louvain University Medical School, Brussels, Belgium. Institute of Physiology, Medical Faculty, Rheinisch-Westf[umlaut]alische Technische Hochschule, Aachen, Germany. APStracts 5:0024H, 1998.
• Mouse and rat plasma renin concentration and gene expression in ( mren2) 27 transgenic rats. Bohlender, J[umlaut]urgen, Joel M[acute]enard, Oliver Edling, Detlev Ganten, and Friedrich C. Luft. Franz Volhard Clinic and the Max Delbr[umlaut]uck Center for Molecular Medicine, Virchow Klinikum, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany APStracts 5:0025H, 1998.
• End-systolic pressure-volume relationship of in situ rat left ventricle shows contractility-dependent curvilinearity. Sato, Takayuki, Toshiaki Shishido, Toru Kawada, Hiroshi Miyano, Hiroshi Miyashita, Masashi Inagaki, Masaru Sugimachi, Kenji Sunagawa. Department of Cardiovascular Dynamics, National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Suita, Osaka 565, Japan APStracts 5:0026H, 1998.
• Insulin improves contractile function during moderate ischemia in canine left ventricle. Tune, Johnathan D., Robert T. Mallet, and H. Fred Downey. Department of Integrative Physiology, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, Fort Worth TX 76107-2699 APStracts 5:0027H, 1998.
• Estrogen replacement, vascular distensibility and blood pressures in post-menopausal women. Meersman, Ronald E. De, Adrienne S. Zion, Elsa G. V. Giardina, Joseph P. Weir, James S. Lieberman, and John A. Downey, D. Phil. Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, the Division of Cardiology, the Center for Women's Health, College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, NY, NY 10032. APStracts 5:0028H, 1998.
• No decreases phosphorylation of focal adhesion proteins via reduction of ca in rat aortic smooth muscle cells. Kaur, Kuljeet, Jian Yao, Xiaolei Pan, Carolyn Matthews, and Aviv Hassid. Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Tennessee, Memphis APStracts 5:0029H, 1998.
• Central command, but not muscle reflex, stimulates cutaneous sympathetic postganglionic fibers supplying the hindlimb of cats. Hill, Janeen M., and Marc P. Kaufman. Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of California, Davis APStracts 5:0030H, 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 5:0031H, 1998.
• Vasodilator responses to histamine are mediated by the release of nitric oxide and opening of k+atp channels in the hindlimb vascular bed of the cat. Champion, Hunter C., and Philip J. Kadowitz. Department of Pharmacology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112 APStracts 5:0032H, 1998.
• Involvement of sa channels in orienting response of cultured endothelial cells to cyclic stretch. Naruse, Keiji, Takako Yamada, and Masahiro Sokabe. Department of Physiology, Nagoya University, School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai, Showa-ku, Nagoya. 466, Japan APStracts 5:0033H, 1998.
• Effects of a new inotropic agent, bay y 5959, on myocardial function and metabolism in normal and failing hearts. Todaka, Koji, Jie Wang, Geng-Hua Yi, Anguo Gu, Shu-Ming Zhu, Hui Zhang, and Daniel Burkhoff. Division of Circulatory Physiology, Department of Medicine, College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY APStracts 5:0034H, 1998.
• Blunted hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstrictive response in the rodent ochotona curzoniae (pika) at high altitude. Ge, Ri-Li, T. Honda, K. Kubo, T. Kobayashi, M. Sekiguchi. First Department of Internal Medicine, Shinshu University, School of Medicine, Matsumoto 390, Japan. APStracts 5:0035H, 1998.
• Mechanisms of the cardiovascular deconditioning induced by tail suspension in the rat.. Martel, Eric, Pascal Ponchon, Pascal Champroux, Jean-Luc Elghozi, Jean-Franois Renaud De La Faverie, Hubert Dabir, Bruno Pannier, Serge Richard, Michel Safar, Jean-Louis Cuche. Department of Internal Medicine and INSERM Unit-337, Hospital Broussais, Paris. Department of Pharmacology, CNRS URA 1482, Hospital Necker Paris. Centre de Recherches Biologiques, Baugy. APStracts 5:0036H, 1998.
• Low frequency arterial pressure fluctuations do not reflect sympathetic outflow: gender and age related differences. Taylor, J. Andrew, Todd D. Williams, Douglas R. Seals, Kevin P. Davy,. Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for Aged, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Harvard Medical School Division on Aging, Boston, Massachusetts 02167; Department of Kinesiology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado and University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Department of Medicine (Cardiology and Geriatric Medicine), Denver, Colorado APStracts 5:0037H, 1998.
• Adenosine depletion alters postictal hypoxic cerebral vasodilation in the newborn pig. Rj, Digeronimo, Gegg Ca, and Zuckerman Sl. University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center, San Antonio, TX APStracts 5:0038H, 1998.
• Intrinsic angii type 1 receptor stimulation contributes to recovery of postischemic mechanical function. Ford, William R., Alexander S. Clanachan, Gary D. Lopaschuk, Richard Schulz, and Bodh I. Jugdutt. Cardiology Division of the Department of Medicine and the Department of Pharmacology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. APStracts 5:0039H, 1998.
• Myocardial matrix metalloproteinase activity and abundance with congestive heart failure. Coker, Mytsi L., Chadwick V. Thomas, Mark J. Clair, Jennifer W. Hendrick, R. Stephen Krombach, Zorina S. Galis, Francis G. Spinale. Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC and Department of Medicine, Emory School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA APStracts 5:0040H, 1998.
• Up-regulation of the cardiac homeobox gene nkx2-5 (csx) in feline right ventricular pressure overload.. Thompson, Jerry T., Mary S. Rackley, Terrence X. Oobrien. Office of Research and Development, Ralph H. Johnson Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center; Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina and the Gazes Cardiac Research Institute, Charleston, South Carolina, 29425-2221 APStracts 5:0041H, 1998.
• The trabecular culture system: a novel technique to study contractile parameters over a multi-day time period. Janssen, P. M. L., S. E. Lehnart, J. Prestle, J. C. Lynker, P. Salfeld, H. Just, and G. Hasenfuss. Universit[umlaut]at Freiburg, Med. Klinik III, Freiburg, Germany APStracts 5:0042H, 1998.
• Pdgf-bb-induced dna synthesis is delayed by angiotensin ii in vascular smooth muscle cells. Dahlfors, Gunilla, Yun Chen, Maria Wasteson, and Hans J. Arnqvist. Department of Cellbiology and Internal Medicine, Faculty of Health Science, University of Link[diaeresis]oping, Sweden. APStracts 5:0043H, 1998.
• Changes in the sympathetic nervous system induced by 42-days of head-down bed-rest.. Sigaudo, Dominique, Jacques-Olivier Fortrat, Anne-Marie Allevard, Alain Maillet, Jean-Marie Cottet-Emard, Annick Vouillarmet, Richard L. Hughson, Guillemette Gauquelin-Koch, and Claude Gharib. Laboratoire de Physiologie de l'Environnement (Groupement d'inter[circumflex]et public exercice), Facult[acute]e de M[acute]edecine Lyon Grange-Blanche, 8 avenue Rockefeller, F-69373 Lyon Cedex 08, France. Department of Kinesiology, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada. APStracts 5:0044H, 1998.
• Subcellular properties of [ca2+]i-transients in phospholamban -deficient mouse ventricular cells. H[umlaut]user, J[diaeresis]org, Donald M. Bers, Lothar A. Blatter. Loyola University Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine, Department of Physiology, Maywood, IL 60153, USA APStracts 5:0045H, 1998.
• Rr variability detects increases in vagal modulation with phenylephrine infusion. Bloomfield, Daniel M, Steven Zweibel, J Thomas Bigger, Jr., Richard C Steinman. Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. APStracts 5:0046H, 1998.