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

The American Physiological Society

• Effects of hypoxia on expression of superoxide dismutases in cultured atii cells and lung fibroblasts. Jackson, Robert M., Gregory Parish, and Ye-Shih Ho. Birmingham VA Medical Center, Birmingham, AL 35223, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294 and Institute of Chemical Toxicology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201 APStracts 3:0157L, 1996.
• Expression of fibronectin mrna splice variants by rabbit lung in vivo and by alveolar type ii cells in vitro. Maniscalco, William M., Richard H. Watkins, Maura H. Campbell. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, Strong Children's Research Center, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY APStracts 3:0158L, 1996.
• Leukotriene d4 induces mmp-1 which functions as an igf binding protein protease in human airway smooth muscle cells. Rajah, Roopmathy, Steven E. Nunn, David J. Herrick, Michael M. Grunstein, and Pinchas Cohen. Divisions of Endocrinology, and Pulmonary Medicine, Joseph Stokes, Jr. Research Institute, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine APStracts 3:0159L, 1996.
• Sp-a enhances phagocytosis of klebsiella by interaction with capsular polysaccharides and alveolar macrophages. Kabha, Kisra, Jutta Schmegner, Yona Keisari, Haralambos Parolis, Jutta Schlepper-Schaefer, Itzhak Ofek. Department of Human Microbiology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel -Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel 69978, Faculty of Biology, University of Konstanz, D-78434 Konstanz, Germany, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa APStracts 3:0160L, 1996.