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

The American Physiological Society

• Selective expression of prostaglandin h synthase isoforms and cytosolic phospholipase a2 during retinoic acid-induced differentiation of rat tracheal epithelial cells. Hill, Elizabeth M., Thomas Bader, Paul Nettesheim, and Thomas E. Eling. Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics and Laboratory of Pulmonary Pathobiology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, P.O. Box 12233, Research Triangle Park, N.C. 27709 APStracts 3:0019L, 1996.
• The role of endotoxin in grain dust induced lung inflammation in mice. Jagielo, Paul J., Peter S. Thorne, Jeffery A. Kern, Timothy J. Quinn, David A. Schwartz. Departments of Internal Medicine and Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health, The University of Iowa College of Medicine and the Department of Veterans Affairs, Iowa City, Iowa APStracts 3:0020L, 1996.
• Production and characterization of guinea pig il-5 in baculovirus -infected insect cells. Mansour, Mahmoud, Michael Karmilowicz, Steven J. Hawrylik, Barbara Nalcerio, Jane Angilly, Maryrose J. Conklyn, Craig M. Lilly, Jeffery M. Drazen, S. E. Lee, David D. Auperin, Jeffrey R. Dewet, Victoria L. Cohan, Henry J. Showell, and Dennis E. Danley. Departments of Molecular Sciences and Immunology and Infectious Disease, Pfizer Central Research Division, Groton, CT 06340 and Department of Medicine, Brigham and Womens Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115 APStracts 3:0021L, 1996.
• Dynamics of tgf-[beta]3 peptide activity during rat alveolar epithelial cell proliferative recovery from acute hyperoxia. Buckley, Sue, Kim Chi Bui, Mukkaram Hussain, and David Warburton. Departments of Surgery & Pediatrics, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles Research Institute, U.S.C. School of Medicine, 4650 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90027 APStracts 3:0022L, 1996.
• P2u-purinoceptor regulation of chloride secretion in the cultured human tracheal submucosal glands. Yamaya, Mutsuo, Kiyohisa Sekizawa, Yasunori Kakuta, Takashi Ohrui, Takashi Sawai, and Hidetada Sasaki. Department of Geriatric Medicine, First Department of Internal Medicine and Department of Pathology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai 980 Japan APStracts 3:0023L, 1996.
• Alveolar type 2 cell growth on a pulmonary endothelial extracellular matrix. Adamson, Ian Y. R., and Linda Young. Department of Pathology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada APStracts 3:0024L, 1996.
• Hepatocyte growth factor is a mitogen for alveolar type ii cells in rat lavage fluid. Mason, Robert J., Kathleen McCormick-Shannon, Jeffrey S. Rubin, Toshikazu Nakamura, Christina C. Leslie. Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, Denver, Colorado, Departments of Pathology and Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado 80262, Laboratory of Cellular & Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute APStracts 3:0025L, 1996.
• Regulation of ornithine decarboxylase by hypoxia in pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells. Harrod, Kevin S., Jack W. Olson, and Mark N. Gillespie. Division of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, A.B. Chandler Medical Center, Lexington, Kentucky APStracts 3:0026L, 1996.
• Pulmonary vasodilator responses to adrenomedullin are reduced by nitric oxide synthase inhibitors in the rat but not in the cat. Nossaman, Bobby Dean, Chang Jian Feng, Alan David Kaye, Brecken Dewitt, David H. Coy, William A. Murphy, and Philip J. Kadowitz. Departments of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology, Tulane University Medical Center, 1430 Tulane Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70112-2699 APStracts 3:0027L, 1996.
• The effect of dexamethasone on expression of adhesion molecules on cd4+ lymphocytes. Hughes, Jm, W A Sewell, Jl Black, and Cl Armour. Departments of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Sydney and Centre for Immunology, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Australia APStracts 3:0028L, 1996.
• Phenotypic and immunologic factors affecting plasmid-mediated in vivo gene transfer to rat diaphragm. Petrof, Basil J., Gyula Acsadi, Johanne Bourdon, Neola Matusiewicz, and Liying Yang. Respiratory Division, Dept. of Medicine, Royal Victoria Hospital, and Meakins-Christie Laboratories, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 1A1; Neuromuscular Research Group, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2B4 APStracts 3:0029L, 1996.
• Nitric oxide alters metabolism in isolated alveolar type ii cells. Miles, P. R., L. Bowman, and L. Huffman. Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Morgantown, WV 26505 and Department of Physiology, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV 26506 APStracts 3:0030L, 1996.