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

The American Physiological Society

• Adaptation of the outer medullary collecting duct to metabolic acidosis in vitro. Tsuruoka, Shuichi, and George J. Schwartz. Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, NY 14642 APStracts 5:0162F, 1998.
• Immunolocalization of the electrogenic na/hco3 cotransporter in mammalian and amphibian kidney. Schmitt, Bernhard M., Daniel Biemesderfer, Michael F. Romero, Emile L. Boulpaep, and Walter F. Boron. Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, and 1Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Nephrology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA APStracts 5:0163F, 1998.
• Adaptation of nhe-3 in the rat thick ascending limb : effects of high sodium intake and metabolic alkalosis.. Laghmani, Kamel, R[acute]egine Chambrey, Marc Froissart, Maurice Bichara, Michel Paillard, and Pascale Borensztein. Laboratoire de Physiologie et Endocrinologie Cellulaire R[acute]enale, Institut National de la Sant[acute]e et de la Recherche M[acute]edicale U. 356, Universit[acute]e Pierre et Marie Curie, Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire Broussais, Paris, France. APStracts 5:0164F, 1998.
• Guanine nucleotide-binding proteins in cultured renal epithelia_: studies with pertussis toxin and aldosterone. Svoboda, Sarah Sariban-Sohraby Michal, ( and Fr[acute]ed[acute]erique Mies. ( Laboratoire de Chimie Biologique, Universit[acute]e Libre de Bruxelles, APStracts 5:0165F, 1998.
• Epidermal growth factor inhibits na-pi cotransport in weaned and suckling rats. Arar, Mazen, Ihsan Elshihabi, Hubert K. Zajicek And, Moshe Levi, (with The Technical Assistance Of Myrna Gonzales, and Paul Wilson). 1Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 78284, and 2 Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75216. APStracts 5:0166F, 1998.
• Urea transport processes are induced in rat imcd subsegments when urine concentrating ability is reduced. Kato, Akihiko, and Jeff M. Sands. Renal Division, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322 USA APStracts 5:0167F, 1998.
• A simple, non-radioactive method for evaluating single nephron filtration rate and fluid reabsorption using fitc-inulin. Lorenz, John N., and Eric Gruenstein . Departments of Molecular and Cellular Physiology 1, and Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry and Microbiology 2 University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45267 APStracts 5:0168F, 1998.
• Type ii na/pi cotransport is regulated at the transcriptional level by ambient bicarbonate/carbon dioxide tension in ok cells. Jehle, Andreas W., Helene Hilfiker, Markus F. Pfister, J[umlaut]urg Biber, Eleanor Lederer, Reto Krapf and Heini Murer. Institute of Physiology, University of Zurich-Irchel, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland; 1Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40292; 2Klinik B f[umlaut]ur Innere Medizin, Kantonsspital, CH-9007 St. Gallen, Switzerland. APStracts 5:0169F, 1998.
• The effect of at2 receptor blockade on the pathogenesis of renal fibrosis. Morrissey, Jeremiah J., and Saulo Klahr. Renal Division and the Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri 63110 APStracts 5:0170F, 1998.
• Renal type i inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor is reduced in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats and mice. Sharma, Kumar, Lewei Wang, Yanqing Zhu, Aurora Deguzman, Gao-Yuan Cao, Richard B. Lynn and Suresh K. Joseph. 1Nephrology Division and 3Gastroenterology and Hepatology Division of the Department of Medicine and 2Department of Anatomy, Pathology, and Cell Biology, Thomas Jefferson University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107 APStracts 5:0171F, 1998.
• Basolateral na+ pump modulates apical na+ and k+ conductances in rabbit cortical collecting ducts_. Muto, Shigeaki, Yasushi Asano, Donald Seldin, and Gerhard Giebisch. 1Department of Nephrology, Jichi Medical School, Minamikawachi, Kawachi, Tochigi, 329-0498 Japan; Department of Internal Medicine, 2University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dalas, Dalas, TX 75235; and 3Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520 APStracts 5:0172F, 1998.
• Lysophosphatidic acid-induced calcium mobilisation and proliferation in kidney proximal tubular cells. Dixon, Richard J., Ken Young and Nigel J. Brunskill,. 1Department of Cell Physiology and Pharmacology, Leicester University School of Medicine, Leicester, U.K., 2Department of Nephrology, Leicester General Hospital, Leicester, U.K. APStracts 5:0173F, 1998.
• Low aquaporin-2 levels in polyuric di +/+ severe mice with constitutively high camp-phosphodiesterase activity. Fr_kiaer, J_rgen, ), David Marples, ), Heinz Valtin ), John F. Morris ), Mark A. Knepper ) and S_ren Nielsen ). 1) Department of Clinical Physiology, Aarhus University Hospital and Institute of Experimental Clinical Research, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus, Denmark; 2) Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Anatomy, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus, Denmark; 3) Department of Physiology, University of Leeds, LS2 9NQ, Leeds, UK; 4) Department of Physiology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755-3836; 5) Department of Anatomy, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QX, UK and 6) Laboratory of Kidney and Electrolyte Metabolism, NHLBI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA. APStracts 5:0174F, 1998.
• Rat proximal tubule cell line transformed with origin-defective sv40 dna: autocrine angiotensin ii feedback. Ingelfinger, Julie R., Flavia Jung, Daniel Diamant, Liam Haveran, Edwin Lee, Andrew Brem and Shiow-Shih Tang. 1Pediatric Nephrology Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114 and 2Rhode Island Hospital, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02903 APStracts 5:0175F, 1998.
• Vasopressin increases na-k-2cl cotransporter expression in thick ascending limb of henle_s loop. Kim, Gheun-Ho, Carolyn A. Ecelbarger, Carter Mitchell, Randall K. Packer, James B. Wade, and Mark A. Knepper. 1Laboratory of Kidney and Electrolyte Metabolism, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, 2Department of Biological Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, 3Department of Physiology, University of Maryland College of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201 APStracts 5:0176F, 1998.
• Molecular cloning and functional expression of a multispecific organic anion transporter from human kidney. Hosoyamada, Makoto, Takashi Sekine, Yoshikatsu Kanai, and Hitoshi Endou. Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, 6-20-2 Shinkawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181, Japan APStracts 5:0177F, 1998.
• Suppressed impact of nitric oxide on renal arteriolar function in rats with chronic heart failure . Ikenaga, Hideki, Naohito Ishii, Sean P. Didion, Kun Zhang, Kurtis G. Cornish, Kaushik P. Patel, William G. Mayhan, and Pamela K. Carmines. Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Nebraska College of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska 68198-4575 APStracts 5:0178F, 1998.
• Hypotonic saline infusion alters the renal response to amino acids in man. Appiani, Aldo Claris, Amedea S. Tirelli, Gianluigi Ardissino, Valeria Dacco', Eugenia Moretto, Carlo Corbetta, Laura Guidi and Baroukh M. Assael. Department of Pediatrics, University of Milan, and *Pharmacy and Laboratory of Istituti Clinici di Perfezionamento, Milan, Italy APStracts 5:0179F, 1998.