APStracts (ISSN 1080-4757) Vol. 3, 1996

The American Physiological Society

• Expression of the catalytic domain of myosin light chain kinase increases paracellular permeability. Hecht, Gail, Lidija Pestic, Gordana Nikcevic, Athanasia Koutsouris, Jyoti Tripuraneni, Donald D. Lorimer, Grzegorz Nowak, Vince Guerriero, Jr., Elliot L. Elson, and Primal De Lanerolle. Department of Medicine, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, Department of Animal Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AR and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University Medical School, St. Louis, MO APStracts 3:0166C, 1996.
• Mercuric chloride uncouples glutamate uptake from the countertransport of hydroxyl equivalents . Nagaraja, Tavarekere N., and Neville Brookes. Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. APStracts 3:0167C, 1996.
• Na,k-atpase in lacrimal gland acinar cell endosomal system, correcting a case of mistaken identity. Gierow, J. Peter, Tao Yang, Arpi Bekmezian, Nelson Liu, John M. Norian, Shin Ae Kim, Sina Rafisolyman, Hongtao Zeng, Curtis T. Okamoto, Richard L. Wood, and Austin K. Mircheff. Departments of Physiology & Biophysics, Cell & Neurobiology, and Ophthalmology, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Southern California School of Pharmacy, Los Angeles, California 90033 APStracts 3:0168C, 1996.
• Contraction-induced injury to single permeabilized muscle fibers from fast and slow muscles of the rat following single stretches. Macpherson, Peter C. D., M. Anthony Schork, and John A. Faulkner. Institute of Gerontology and Department of Physiology, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 -2007 APStracts 3:0169C, 1996.
• Lipoprotein-induced prostacyclin production in endothelial cells and the effects of lipoprotein modification. Myers, Damian E., Wei-Ning Huang, and Richard G. Larkins. Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, 3052 APStracts 3:0170C, 1996.
• Functional characterization of the rat na/h exchanger isoform, nhe -4, in cultured nhe-deficient fibroblasts and localization in rat hippocampus. Bookstein, Crescence, Mark W. Musch, Alex Depaoli, Yue Xie, Karen Rabenau, Mitchel Villereal, Mrinalini C. Rao, and Eugene B. Chang. Departments of Medicine and Pharmacological and Physiological Sciences, University of Chicago, 5841 S. Maryland Ave., Chicago, IL. 60637, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL. 60612 APStracts 3:0171C, 1996.
• Expression of hybrid isomyosins in human skeletal muscle. Wada, Masanobu, Tadashi Okumoto, Kyoko Toro, Kazumi Masuda, Toru Fukubayashi, Kunio Kikuchi, Shigemitsu Niihata, and Shigeru Katsuta. Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University, Higashihiroshima-shi Hiroshima-ken, Japan, Institute of Health and Sports Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tennodai, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken, Japan, Department of Life Sciences, University of Tokyo, Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan APStracts 3:0172C, 1996.
• Biosynthesis and cell surface delivery of the nhe1 isoform of na+/ h+ exchanger in a6 cells. Coupaye-Gerard, Brigitte, Cresence Bookstein, Pamela Duncan, Xi Yin Chen, Peter R. Smith, Mark Musch, Stephen A. Ernst, Eugene B. Chang, and Thomas R. Kleyman. Departments of Medicine and Physiology, University of Pennsylvania and VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA; the Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; the Department of Physiology, Medical College of Pennsylvania and Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, PA; and Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 APStracts 3:0173C, 1996.
• Theoretical and experimental discrimination between cl-/h+ symporters and cl-/oh- antiporters. Alvarado, Francisco, and Monique Vasseur. Institut National de la Sant[acute]e et de la Recherche M[acute]edicale, CJF 94-07, Facult[acute]e de Pharmacie, Universit[acute]e de Paris XI, 92296 Chatenay-Malabry, France APStracts 3:0174C, 1996.
• Induction of [beta]mhc transgene in overloaded skeletal muscle is not eliminated by mutation of conserved elements. Tsika, Gretchen L., Jennifer L. Wiedenman, Liying Gao, John J. McCarthy, Katrina Sheriff-Carter, Ilia D. Rivera-Rivera, and Richard W. Tsika. Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois 61801 APStracts 3:0175C, 1996.
• Connexin32/38 chimeras suggest a role for the second half of the inner loop in gap junction gating by low ph. Wang, Xiao Guang, and Camillo Peracchia. Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Rochester, School of Medicine and Dentistry, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Rochester, NY 14642-8642, Tel. (716) 275-2201, Fax (716) 461-3259 APStracts 3:0176C, 1996.
• Effects of intraluminal ca load on the kinetics of 45ca uptake and efflux in brain microsomes. Wells, Karen M., and Ronald F. Abercrombie. Department of Physiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, 30322 APStracts 3:0177C, 1996.
• Negative regulation of the rat na,k-atpase [alpha]3 subunit gene promoter by thyroid hormone. He, Huaping, Shing Chin, Kai Zhuang, Ron Hartong, James Apriletti, and Gregory Gick. Department of Biochemistry, State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn, Brooklyn NY 11203, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, CA 92103, and Metabolic Research Unit, University of California, San Francisco CA 94143 APStracts 3:0178C, 1996.
• Heterogeneity in the effects of reactive oxygen on coronary artery ca2+ pumps loading ip3 -sensitive and -insensitive sr ca2+ pools. Elmoselhi, A. B., S. E. Samson, and A. K. Grover. Department of Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8N3Z5 APStracts 3:0179C, 1996.
• Glucose and pyruvate regulate cytokine-induced nitric oxide production by cardiac myocytes. Finkel, Carmine V. Oddis Mitchell S. Departments of Pathology, Surgery, Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 APStracts 3:0180C, 1996.
• Inhibition of the amiloride-sensitive na+ channel by isothiouronium derivatives. Avigdor, Abraham, Carol Asher, Daniel M. Tal, Steven J. D. Karlish, and Haim Garty. Department of Membrane Research and Biophysics and the Department of Biochemistry, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel APStracts 3:0181C, 1996.
• An equibiaxial strain system for cultured cells. Lee, Ann A., Tammo Delhaas, Lewis K. Waldman, Deidre A. Mackenna, Francisco J. Villarreal, and Andrew D. McCulloch. Departments of Bioengineering and Medicine[acute]a, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA; La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation, La Jolla, CA; on leave from Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, Utrecht, The Netherlands APStracts 3:0182C, 1996.
• Maturation effects on the nmr microimaging characteristics of single neurons. Aiken, Nanci R., Edward W. Hsu, Anthony Horsman, and Stephen J. Blackband. The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Radiology, Baltimore, MD 21205 APStracts 3:0183C, 1996.
• Presence of a metabotropic and an ionotropic purinergic receptor on rat submandibular ductal cells. Amsallem, Hagai, Mourad M[umlaut]atioui, Astrid Vandenabeele, Abdelmoutalib Elyamani, Arie Moran, and Jean-Paul Dehaye. Department of Physiology, Corob Center for Medical Research, Faculty for Health Science, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Isral; Laboratoire de Biochimie g[umlaut]an[umlaut]arale et humaine, Institut de Pharmacie, Universit[umlaut]a libre de Bruxelles, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium; 3, Laboratoire de Stomatologie, Facult[umlaut]a de M[umlaut]adecine, Universit[umlaut]a libre de Bruxelles, Route de Lennik, B-1070 Brussels, Belgium APStracts 3:0184C, 1996.
• Adenine nucleotide diphosphates: emerging second messengers acting via intracellular ca2+ release. Dousa, Thomas P., Eduardo N. Chini, and Kelly W. Beers. Renal Pathophysiology Laboratory, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Mayo Medical School, Rochester, MN APStracts 3:0185C, 1996.
• A regulated calcium channel in apical membranes of renal proximal tubule cells. N., Zhang Min I., and Roger G. O'neil. Department of Integrative Biology, The University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center, 6431 Fannin, Houston, Texas 77030, Telephone: (713)-792-5293, FAX: (713)-794-1349, E-mail: mzhang@girch1.med.uth.tmc.edu APStracts 3:0186C, 1996.
• Effects of lost surface area on red cells and red cell survival in mice. Waugh, Richard E., and Ingrid H. Sarelius. Department of Biophysics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY 14642 APStracts 3:0187C, 1996.
• Mechanism of activation by cyclic gmp-dependent protein kinase of large, ca2+-activated k+ channels in human glomerular mesangial cells . Stockand, James D., and Steven C. Sansom. Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension and Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas Medical School at Houston APStracts 3:0188C, 1996.
• A voltage operable current is involved in activation-induced ca2+ entry in human lymphocytes while icrac has no apparent role. Densmore, J. J., D. M. Haverstick, G. Szabo, and L. S. Gray. Departments of Pathology and Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia, Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908 APStracts 3:0189C, 1996.
• Cdna cloning of a functional water channel from toad urinary bladder epithelium. Ma, Tonghui, Baoxue Yang, and A. S. Verkman. Departments of Medicine and Physiology, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 94143-0521, U.S.A. APStracts 3:0190C, 1996.
• Functional identification of a sarcolemmal chloride channel from bovine tracheal smooth muscle. Salvail, Dany, Abderrahmane Alioua, and Eric Rousseau. Le Bilarium, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Qc, Canada, J1H 5N4 APStracts 3:0191C, 1996.
• Increased contractile activity decreases rna-protein interaction in the 3_-untranslated region of cytochrome c mrna. Yan, Zhen, Stanley Salmons, Yan Li Dang, Marc T. Hamilton, and Frank W. Booth. Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas Medical School, Houston, TX 77225, U.S.A., Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX, U.K. APStracts 3:0192C, 1996.
• Nitric oxide and superoxide anion production during endothelial cell proliferation. Arnal, Jean-Fran[cedilla]cois, Ivan Tack, Jean-Paul Besombes, Bernard Pipy, Anne N[grave]egre-Salvayre. Laboratoire de Physiologie et INSERM CJF-9107, CJF-9206, U397, U388, Institut Louis Bugnard, CHU Rangueil, 31054 Toulouse Cedex, France APStracts 3:0193C, 1996.
• Na/k/2cl-cotransport, na/h-exchange and cell volume in ferret red cells. Mairb[umlaut]aurl, Heimo, and Christiane Herth. Department of Sports Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Hospitalstr.3, D - 69115 Heidelberg, Germany APStracts 3:0194C, 1996.