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

The American Physiological Society

• Altered endothelin etb but not eta receptor density and function in sheep airway smooth muscle cells in culture. Maxwell, Michael J., Roy G. Goldie, and Peter J. Henry. Department of Pharmacology, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Australia, 6907. APStracts 5:0047L, 1998.
• Eosinophils, major basic protein and polycationic peptides augment bovine airway myocyte calcium mobilization. Wylam, Mark E., Nesli Gungor, Richard W Mitchell, and Jason G. Umans. Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, and the Committee on Clinical Pharmacology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (USA) 60637 APStracts 5:0048L, 1998.
• Clearance of sp-c and recombinant sp-c in vivo and in vitro. Ikegami, Machiko, Ann D. Horowitz, Jeffrey A. Whitsett, Alan H. Jobe. Pulmonary Biology, ChildrenOs Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 45229 APStracts 5:0049L, 1998.
• Enos expression is not altered in pulmonary vascular remodeling due to increased pulmonary blood flow. Everett, Allen D., Timothy D. Le Cras, Chun Xue, and Roger A. Johns. Departments of Pediatrics and Anesthesiology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908. Dept. of Pediatrics, University of Colorado, Box C218, 4200 E Ninth Ave., Denver, CO 80262. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Division, 1L-125.10.16, Basel, Switzerland CH-4002 APStracts 5:0050L, 1998.
• Acetylcholine stimulates alveolar macrophages to release neutrophil, monocyte, and eosinophil chemotactic activity.. Sato, Etsuro, Sekiya Koyama, Yoshio Ookubo, Keishi Kubo, Morie Sekiguchi. The First Department of Internal Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine, 3-1-1 Asahi, Matsumoto, 390 Japan APStracts 5:0051L, 1998.
• Protein kinase c isoforms and other signaling proteins involved in surfactant secretion in developing rat type ii cells. Gobran, Laurice I, Zhi-Xin Xu, and Seamus A Rooney. Division of Perinatal Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510 APStracts 5:0052L, 1998.
• Endothelial dysfunction in pulmonary arteries of patients with mild chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Peinado, V[acute]ictor I., Joan A. Barber, Josep Ramrez, Federico P. Gmez, Josep Roca, Llu[acute]is Jover, Josep M. Gimferrer, Robert Rodriguez-Roisin. Serveis de Pneumologia i Al x l[grave]ergia Respirat[grave]oria, Anatomia Patol[grave]ogica i Cirurgia Tor[grave]acica, Departament de Medicina, IDIBAPS, Hospital Cl[acute]inic; and Departament de Salut P[acute]ublica i L.S. (Bioestad[acute]istica), Facultat de Medicina; Universitat de Barcelona; Spain. IDIBAPS-Institut d'Investigacions Biom[grave]ediques August Pi i Sunyer. APStracts 5:0053L, 1998.
• Mechanical strain inhibits repair of airway epithelium in vitro. Savla, Ushma, and Christopher M. Waters. Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Anesthesiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611 APStracts 5:0054L, 1998.
• A urokinase receptor mrna binding protein from rabbit lung fibroblasts and mesothelial cells.. Shetty, Sreerama, and Steven Idell. Department of Medical Specialties, The University of Texas Health Center at Tyler, Tyler, TX APStracts 5:0055L, 1998.
• Transcriptional regulation of tropoelastin expression in rat lung fibroblasts: changes with age and hyperoxia. Bruce, Margaret C., and Catherine E. Honaker. Department of Pediatrics, University of Kentucky Medical School, Lexington, Kentucky, 40536 APStracts 5:0056L, 1998.
• Cytokine-induced nitric oxide formation in normal but not neoplastic murine lung epithelial cell lines. Thompson, David C., Stephanie E. Porter, Alison K. Bauer, Kumuda C. Das, Brandon Ou, Lori Dwyer-Nield, Carl W. White, and Alvin M. Malkinson. Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO 80262-0238. Department of Pediatrics, National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, Denver, CO 80206 APStracts 5:0057L, 1998.
• Effect of a novel covalent antithrombin-heparin complex on thrombin generation on fetal distal lung epithelium. Chan, A. K. C., Leslie Berry, Lesley Mitchell, Bryan Baranowski, Hugh O'brodovich, Maureen Andrew. The MRC Group in Developmental Lung Biology , Respiratory Research Division of The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto and the Departments of Paediatrics of the University of Toronto, and McMaster University, Ontario, Canada APStracts 5:0058L, 1998.