APStracts (ISSN 1080-4757) Vol. 4, 1997

The American Physiological Society

• Optimal stimulus frequencies, multistability, and oscillations emerge from models of genetic regulatory systems. Smolen, Paul, Douglas A. Baxter, John H. Byrne. Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA APStracts 4:0316C, 1997.
• Female gender hormones regulate mrna levels and function of the rat lung epithelial na channel. Sweezey, N., S. Tchepichev, S. Gagnon, K. Fertuck, and H. O'brodovich. Respiratory Research, The Hospital for Sick Children, MRC Group in Lung Development, Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1X8 APStracts 4:0317C, 1997.
• Regulation of na,k-atpase gene expression by hyperoxia in mdck cells. Wendt, Christine H., Howard Towle, Renu Sharma, Sara Duvick, Kiyoshi Kawakami, Gregory Gick, David Ingbar. University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN 55455. State University of New York, Brooklyn, NY 11203-2012. Jichi Medical School, Japan APStracts 4:0318C, 1997.
• Eukaryotic initiation factor 4e availability regulates skeletal muscle protein synthesis during recovery from exercise.. Gautsch, T. A., J. C. Anthony, S. R. Kimball, G. L. Paul, D. K. Layman, and L. S. Jefferson. Division of Nutritional Sciences and the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois, Urbana, 61801. Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033. APStracts 4:0319C, 1997.
• Circadian regulation of the creb transcription factor in the mouse esophagus. Scheving, Lawrence A., and Wendi Gardner. Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232-2576 APStracts 4:0320C, 1997.
• Cytosolic ca2+-reducing action of camp in rat pancreatic [beta] -cells: involvement of thapsigargin-sensitive stores. Yaekura, Kazuro, and Toshihiko Yada. Department of Physiology and First Department of Internal Medicine, Kagoshima University School of Medicine, 8-35-1 Sakuragaoka, Kagoshima 890, Japan. Laboratory of Intracellular Metabolism, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki 444, Japan APStracts 4:0321C, 1997.
• Reduced calcium uptake by mitochondria in pyruvate dehydrogenase -deficient human diploid fibroblasts. Padua, Rodolfo A., Kyle T. Baron, Bhaskar Thyagarajan, Colin Campbell, and Stanley A. Thayer. Department of Pharmacology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN 55455 APStracts 4:0322C, 1997.
• Characteristics of rabbit clc-2 current expressed in xenopus oocytes and its contribution to volume regulation. Furukawa, Tetsushi, Takehiko Ogura, Yoshifumi Katayama, and Masayasu Hiraoka. Departments of Autonomic Physiology and Cardiovascular Diseases+, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101, Japan APStracts 4:0323C, 1997.
• Four-fold reduction of water permeability in inner medullary collecting duct of aquaporin-4 knockout mice. Chou, C. L., Tonghui Ma, Baoxue Yang, Mark A. Knepper, and A. S. Verkman. Departments of Medicine and Physiology, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 94143-0521, and Laboratory of Kidney and Electrolyte Metabolism, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. APStracts 4:0324C, 1997.
• Adenylyl cyclase is involved in desensitization and recovery of atp-stimulated cl- secretion in mdck cells. Woo, Jae Suk, Chiyoko N. Inoue, Kazushige Hanaoka, Erik M. Schwiebert, Sandra E. Guggino, and William B. Guggino. Department of Physiology & Pediatrics, and Division of Gastroenterology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205 APStracts 4:0325C, 1997.
• Capillary electrophoretic measurement of tissue metabolites. Dillon, Patrick F., and Patrick R. Sears. Department of Physiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824. Telephone: 517-337-7947, Fax: 517-355-5125, e-mail: dillon@psl.msu.edu APStracts 4:0326C, 1997.
• Functional expression of a truncated ca2+ -activated cl- channel and activation by phorbol ester. Ji, Hong-Long, Michael Duvall, Holly K. Patton, Cynthia Lynn Satterfield, Catherine M. Fuller, and Dale J. Benos. Departments of Physiology and Biophysics and Anesthesiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, 35294 APStracts 4:0327C, 1997.
• Direct inhibitory effect of cccp on the cl--h+ symporter of the guinea-pig ileal brush-border membrane. Alvarado, Francisco, and Monique Vasseur. Institut National de la Sant[acute]e et de la Recherche M[acute]edicale, CJF 94-07, APStracts 4:0328C, 1997.
• Stimulation of membrane serine-threonine phosphatase in erythrocytes by hydrogen peroxide and staurosporine. Bize, Isabel, Patricia Mu[umlaut]aoz, Mitzy Canessa and Philip B. Dunham. Department of Biology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244. Departamento de Biologa, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile. address: Laboratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115. APStracts 4:0329C, 1997.
• A divergent cftr homolog: highly regulated salt transport in the euryhaline teleost fish fundulus heteroclitus. Singer, Thomas D., Stephen J. Tucker, William S. Marshall, and Christopher F. Higgins. Nuffield Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratories, Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DS, U.K. University Laboratory of Physiology, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PT, U.K., and 3Department of Biology, Saint Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, B2G 2W5, Canada APStracts 4:0330C, 1997.
• Molecular and kinetic alterations of muscle amp deaminase during chronic creatine depletion. Rush, James W. E., Peter C. Tullson, and Ronald L. Terjung. Department of Physiology, State University of New York Health Science Center, Syracuse, New York, 13210 APStracts 4:0331C, 1997.
• Control of ca2+ wave propagation in mouse pancreatic acinar cells. Pfeiffer, Fatima, Lutz Sternfeld, Andreas Schmid, and Irene Schulz. Institute of Physiology II., University of the Saarland, D-66421 Homburg/Saar APStracts 4:0332C, 1997.
• Thrombin activates a membrane-associated calcium-independent phospholipase a2 in ventricular myocytes. McHowat, Jane, and Michael H. Creer. Department of Pathology, St. Louis University Medical School, St. Louis, MO 63104 APStracts 4:0333C, 1997.
• Imaging caffeine-induced ca2+ transients in individual fast and slow rat skeletal muscle fibers.. Pagala, Murali K. D., and Stuart R. Taylor. Neuromuscular Research Laboratory, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn NY 11219-2999, and Department of Pharmacology, Mayo Foundation, Rochester, MN 55905-0001 APStracts 4:0334C, 1997.
• Differences in transglutaminase mrna after polyamine depletion in two cell lines. Wang, Jian-Ying, Mary Jane Viar, Ji Li, Hui-Jun Shi, Anami R. Patel, and Leonard R. Johnson. Department of Surgery, University of Maryland Medical School and Baltimore Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland 21201; and Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Memphis, Tennessee 38163 APStracts 4:0335C, 1997.
• The effect of ibmx and alkaline phosphatase inhibitors on chloride secretion in g551d cystic fibrosis mutant mice. Smith, Stephen N., Stephen J. Delaney, Julia R. Dorin, Raymond Farley, Duncan M. Geddes, David J. Porteous, Brandon J. Wainwright, and Eric W. F. W. Alton. Ion Transport Unit, National Heart and Lung Institute, London SW3 6LR, United Kingdom, Department for Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072, Australia, and Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, United Kingdom. APStracts 4:0336C, 1997.
• Basic fibroblast growth factor destabilizes osteonectin mrna in osteoblasts.. Delany, Anne M., and Ernesto Canalis. Departments of Research and Medicine, Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Hartford, CT 06105, and The University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT 06030 APStracts 4:0337C, 1997.
• Ets-1 is an early response gene activated by et-1 and pdgf-bb in vascular smooth muscle cells.. Naito, Shinji, Shunichi Shimizu, Shigeto Maeda, Jianwei Wang, Richard Paul, and James A. Fagin. Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism and 2Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine APStracts 4:0338C, 1997.