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

The American Physiological Society

• Chronic hypoxia decreases nitric oxide production and endothelial nitric oxide synthase in newborn pig lungs . Fike, Candice D., Mark R. Kaplowitz, Carol J. Thomas, and Leif D. Nelin. Department of Pediatrics and Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI. Research Services, Zablocki VAMC, Milwaukee, WI APStracts 5:0001L, 1998.
• Hypoxic pulmonary endothelial cells release a diffusible contractile factor distinct from endothelin. Gaine, Sean P., Mariesa A. Hales, and Nicholas A. Flavahan. Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205. Department of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD 21201. Heart and Lung Institute, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210 APStracts 5:0002L, 1998.
• Hydrogen peroxide causes endothelial barrier dysfunction without disrupting the arginine-nitric oxide pathway. Gupta, Mahesh P., Helmut O. Steinberg, C. Michael Hart. Department of Medicine, Indiana University and Richard L. Roudebush Veterans Affairs Medical Centers, Indianapolis, IN APStracts 5:0003L, 1998.
• Lung cell-specific expression of fibronectin and the eiiia and eiiib splice variants after oxygen injury. Maniscalco, William M., Richard H. Watkins, Patricia R. Chess, Robert A. Sinkin, Stuart Horowitz, Liana Toia. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, Strong Children's Research Center, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, NY. CardioPulmonary Research Institute, Winthrop University Hospital, State University of NY at Stony Brook, Mineola, NY APStracts 5:0004L, 1998.
• Airway epithelial fas ligand expression: potential role in modulating bronchial inflammation. Gochuico, Bernadette R., Kathleen M. Miranda, Edith M. Hessel, Joris J. De Bie, Antoon J. M. Van Oosterhout, William W. Cruikshank, and Alan Fine. The Pulmonary Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, 02118 and Department of Pharmacology and Pathophysiology, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht, The Netherlands APStracts 5:0005L, 1998.
• Dexamethasone activates expression of the pdgf-[alpha] receptor and induces lung fibroblast proliferation. Warshamana, G. Sakuntala, Sylvia Martinez, Joseph A. Lasky, Miriam Corti, and Arnold R. Brody. Lung Biology Program and Departments of Pathology, and Medicine, Tulane University Medical Center, New Orleans, LA 70112 APStracts 5:0006L, 1998.
• Insulin-like growth factor binding proteins (igfbps) in air and 85% oxygen-exposed adult rat lung. Han, Robin N. N., Victor K. M. Han, Shilpa Buch, Bruce A. Freeman, Martin Post, and A. Keith Tanswell. Medical Research Council Group in Lung Development, Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute and Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A8; Medical Research Council Group in Fetal and Neonatal Health and Development, Lawson Research Institute, St. Joseph's Health Centre and Departments of Paediatrics, Anatomy and Biochemistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 4V2; and Departments of Anesthesiology, Biochemistry and Pediatrics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294 APStracts 5:0007L, 1998.
• Myosin heavy chain gene expression changes in the diaphragm of patients with chronic lung hyperinflation. Mercadier, Jean-Jacques, Ketty Schwartz, Stefano Schiaffino, Claudine Wisnewsky, Simonetta Ausoni, Mich[angstrom]ale Heimburger, Rolana Marrash, Ren[umlaut]a Pariente, and Michel Aubier. INSERM Unit[umlaut]a 460, H[diaeresis]opital Bichat, Paris, France, INSERM Unit[umlaut]a 153, Groupe Hospitalier Piti[umlaut]a -Salp[umlaut]ati[angstrom]are, Paris, France, Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche Sperementali, Centro CNR per la Biologia, Fisiopatologia Medicale, Universit[circumflex]e di Padova, Padova, Italy, Services de Pneumologie des H[diaeresis]opitaux Bichat et Beaujon et INSERM Unit[umlaut]a 408, H[diaeresis]opital Bichat, Paris, France APStracts 5:0008L, 1998.
• Cigarette smoke extract inhibits fibroblast mediated collagen gel contraction. Carnevali, S., Y. Nakamura, T. Mio, X. Liu, K. Takigawa, D.j. Romberger, J.r. Spurzem, S.i. Rennard. Dipartimento di Cardiologia, Angiologia e Pneumologia, U.O. di Pneumologia e Fisiopatologia Respiratoria, Universita' degli Studi di Pisa, Pisa, Italy, Third Department of Internal Medicine, University of Tokushima, School of Medicine, Kuramoto-cho, 3, Tokushima 770, Japan, Pulmonary Medicine, Chest Disease Research Institute, Kyoto University, 53 Kawaramachi Shogoin Sukyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan 601, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska APStracts 5:0009L, 1998.
• Molecular basis and function of voltage-gated k+ channels in pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells. Yuan, Xiao-Jian, Jian Wang, Magdalena Juhaszova, Vera A. Golovina, and Lewis J. Rubin. Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine; Department of Physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21201 APStracts 5:0010L, 1998.
• Increased lung preproendothelin-1 and decreased endothelin b receptor gene expression after chronic pulmonary hypertension the ovine fetus. Ivy, D. Dunbar, Timothy D. Le Cras, Marilee P. Horan, Steven H. Abman. Pediatric Heart Lung Center and Sections of Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine & The Children's Hospital, Denver, CO APStracts 5:0011L, 1998.
• Hypoxic exposure time-dependently modulates endothelin-induced contraction of pulmonary artery smooth muscle. Bialecki, Russell A., Carol S. Fisher, Wallace W. Murdoch, Herbert G. Barthlow, Richard B. Stow, Michael Mallamaci, and William Rumsey. Respiratory, Inflammatory and Neurological Diseases Research Section, ZENECA Pharmaceuticals, A business unit of ZENECA, Inc., Wilmington, DE 19850-5437 APStracts 5:0012L, 1998.
• Growth factors and dexamethasone regulate hoxb-5 protein in cultured murine fetal lungs.. Chinoy, Mala R., Maryann V. Volpe, Robert E. Cilley, Steven E. Zgleszewski, Robert J. Vosatka, Ana Martin, Heber C. Nielsen, Thomas M. Krummel. Section of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Hershey Medical Center, The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA and The Floating Hospital for Children at New England Medical Center, Boston, MA. APStracts 5:0013L, 1998.
• Mechanism of all-trans retinoic acid and glucocorticoid regulation of surfactant protein mrna. George, Thomas N., Olga L. Miakotina, Kelli L. Goss, and Jeanne M. Snyder. Departments of Pediatrics* and Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA APStracts 5:0014L, 1998.
• Strain-associated differences in hypoxic chemosensitivity of the carotid body in rats. Weil, J. V., T. Stevens, C. K. Pickett, K. Tatsumi, M. G. Dickinson, C. R. Jacoby, D. M. Rodman. Cardiovascular Pulmonary Research Laboratory, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Health Science Center APStracts 5:0015L, 1998.
• Acrolein-induced muc5ac expression in rat airways. Borchers, Michael T., Susan E. Wert, George D. Leikauf. Department of Environmental Health, Molecular and Cellular Physiology, and Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45267 and Division of Pulmonary Biology, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 45229-3039 APStracts 5:0016L, 1998.
• Effect of tyrosine kinase inhibition on surfactant protein a gene expression during human lung development. Klein, Jonathan M., Louis J. Dewild, Troy A. McCarthy. Department of Pediatrics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1083 APStracts 5:0017L, 1998.
• Paraquat-induced phosphatidylserine oxidation and apoptosis is independent of activation of phospholipase a2. Fabisiak, James P., Valerian E. Kagan, Yulia Y. Tyurina, Vladimir A. Tyurin, John S. Lazo. Departments of Pharmacology and Environmental & Occupational Health, Schools of Medicine and Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261 APStracts 5:0018L, 1998.
• Neonatal clara cell toxicity by 4-ipomeanol alters bronchiolar organization in adult rabbits: i. failure of bronchiolar epithelium to repair following acute injury.. Smiley-Jewell, Suzette M., Susan J. Nishio, Alison J. Weir, and Charles G. Plopper. Department of Anatomy, Physiology, and Cell Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, California 95616-8732 APStracts 5:0019L, 1998.
• Nitric oxide exposure inhibits endothelial nos activity but not gene expression: a role for superoxide.. Sheehy, A. Macduff, Michael A. Burson, & Stephen M. Black. Department of Pediatrics., University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143-0106. APStracts 5:0020L, 1998.
• Pkc activation is required by egf-stimulated na+-h+ exchanger in human pleural mesothelial cells. Liaw, Yuang-Shuang, Pan-Chyr Yang, Chong-Jen Yu, Sow Hsong Kuo, Kwen Tay Luh, Yuh-Jeng Lin, and Mei-Lin Wu. Department of Internal Medicine, Laboratory of Medicine* and Institute of Physiology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. APStracts 5:0021L, 1998.
• A g protein-coupled prostaglandin receptor modulates conductive na+ uptake into fetal guinea pig alveolar type ii pneumocyte apical membrane vesicles. Mukhopadhyay, Somnath, Asim K Dutta-Roy, Gregor K Fyfe, Richard E Olver, and Paul J Kemp. Lung Membrane Transport Group, Department of Child Health, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital & Medical School, Dundee, DD1 9SY, UK and Rowett Research Institute, Bucksburn, Aberdeen, AB21 9SB, UK. Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, P.O. Box 3333, New Haven, Connecticut 06510-6026, U.S.A. Department of Physiology, Worsley Medical and Dental Building, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT. APStracts 5:0022L, 1998.
• Smooth muscle actin and myosin expression in cultured airway smooth muscle cells. Wong, Jean Z., Janet Woodcock-Mitchell, John Mitchell, Patricia Rippetoe, Sheryl White, Marlene Absher, Linda Baldor, John Evans, Kirk M. McHugh, Robert B. Low. Departments of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics; and Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05405. Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107 APStracts 5:0023L, 1998.
• Myosin isoform shifts and decreased reactivity in hypoxia-induced hypertensive pulmonary arterial muscle. Packer, C. S., J. E. Roepke, N. H. Oberlies, and R. A. Rhoades. Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN. 46202 APStracts 5:0024L, 1998.
• Ascorbate-mediated transplasma membrane electron transport in pulmonary arterial endothelial cells. Merker, Marilyn P., Lars E. Olson, Robert D. Bongard, Meha K. Patel, John H. Linehan, Christopher A. Dawson. Departments of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology, Medical College of Wisconsin, 53226; Biomedical Engineering Department, Marquette University, 53201-1881; Department of Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, 53226; Research Service, Zablocki V A Medical Center, 53295 APStracts 5:0025L, 1998.
• Intracellular uptake of recombinant superoxide dismutase after intratracheal administration. Das, Santanu, Stuart Horowitz, Carolyn Robbins, Marwan Eid El-Sabban, Namita Sahgal, Jonathan M. Davis. Departments of Pediatrics (Neonatology) and Medicine (Nephrology) and The CardioPulmonary Research Institute, Winthrop University Hospital, SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine, Mineola, NY APStracts 5:0026L, 1998.
• Lung specific induction of heme oxygenase-1 and hyperoxic lung injury. Taylor, Jennifer L., Martha S. Carraway, and Claude A. Piantadosi. Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710 APStracts 5:0027L, 1998.