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

The American Physiological Society

• Cloning and functional expression of rnbc, an electrogenic na/hco3 cotransporter from the rat kidney. Romero, Michael F., Peying Fong, Urs V. Berger, Matthias A. Hediger, and Walter F. Boron. Department of Cellular & Molecular Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520. 2 Renal Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115Edward A. Doisy APStracts 4:0218F, 1997.
• Regulation of cyclooxygenase expression in the kidney by dietary salt intake. Yang, Tianxin, Inderjit Singh, Hang Pham, Daqing Sun, Ann Smart, Jurgen B. Schnermann, and Josephine P. Briggs. Departments of Physiology and Internal Medicine, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda. Maryland 20892 APStracts 4:0219F, 1997.
• Potential autocrine and paracrine mechanisms of recovery from mechanical injury of renal tubular epithelial cells. Anderson, Robert J., and Carla J. Ray. Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, and Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Denver, CO APStracts 4:0220F, 1997.
• Arginase activity is modulated by interleukin-4 and ng-hydroxy-l -arginine in nephritic glomeruli and mesangial cells. Waddington, Simon N., Frederick W. K. Tam, H. Terence Cook, Victoria Cattell. Department of Histopathology, Imperial College School of Medicine at St Mary's, Norfolk Place, London. W2 1PG and Renal Unit, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, Du cane Road, London. W12 0NN APStracts 4:0221F, 1997.
• Water, urea, proton and ammonia permeabilities of medullary thick ascending limb apical and basolateral membranes.. Rivers, Rickey, Anne Blanchard, Dominique Eladari, Francois Leviel, Michel Paillard, Rene-Alexandre Podevin, and Mark L. Zeidel. Laboratory of Epithelial Cell Biology, Renal-Electrolyte Division, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 and Laboratoire de Physiologie et Endocrinologie Cellulaire et Moleculaire, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Faculte de Medecine, Broussais-Hotel Dieu and INSERM U356, Paris, France APStracts 4:0222F, 1997.
• Dietary salt modulates renal production of transforming growth factor-[beta] in rats. Ying, Wei-Zhong, and Paul W. Sanders. Nephrology Research and Training Center, Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Cell Adhesion and Matrix Research Center, Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine and Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294-0007 and Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Birmingham, AL 35233 APStracts 4:0223F, 1997.
• Dissociation of k channel density and romk mrna in the rat cortical collecting tubule during k adaptation. Frindt, Gustavo, Hao Zhou, Henry Sackin, and Lawrence G. Palmer. Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics, Cornell University Medical College, New York, NY 10021 APStracts 4:0224F, 1997.
• Neuronal nitric oxide synthase modulates rat renal microvascular function. Ichihara, Atsuhiro, Edward W. Inscho, John D. Imig, and L. Gabriel Navar. Department of Physiology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70112-2699 APStracts 4:0225F, 1997.
• B2-kinin receptor up-regulation by camp is associated to bradykinin-induced pge2 production in rat mesangial cells. Casta[tilde]no, Maria E. Marin, Joost P. Schanstra, Christophe Hirtz, Joao B. Pesquero Christiane Pecher, Jean-Pierre Girolami, and Jean -Loup Bascands. Institut Louis BUGNARD, INSERM U388, CHU Rangueil, 31054 TOULOUSE, FRANCE. Max-Delbr[umlaut]uck-Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), D -13122 BERLIN-FRG. Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, Department of Biophysics, 04032-062, SAO PAULO, BRAZIL. APStracts 4:0226F, 1997.
• Localization of the extracellular ca2+/(polyvalent cation)-sensing protein in rat kidney. Riccardi, Daniela, Amy E. Hall, Naibedya Chattopadhyay, Jason Z. Xu, Edward M. Brown, and Steven C. Hebert. Renal Division, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN. Endocrine-Hypertension Unit, Department of Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115 APStracts 4:0227F, 1997.
• Role of no in cyclosporine nephrotoxicity. effects of chronic no inhibition and no synthases gene expression.. Bobadilla, Norma A., Gerardo Gamba, Edilia Tapia, Romeo Garc[acute]ia -Torres, Alexis Bolio, Pedro L[acute]opez-Zetina, and Jaime Herrera -Acosta. Departments of Nephrology and Pathology. Instituto Nacional de Cardiolog[acute]ia Ignacio Ch[acute]avez. Molecular Physiology Unit, Department of Nephrology and Mineral Metabolism. Instituto Nacional de la Nutrici[acute]on Salvador Zubir[acute]an and Instituto de Investigaciones Biom[acute]edicas, National University of Mexico. APStracts 4:0228F, 1997.
• Soy protein modification of rat polycystic kidney disease. Ogborn, Malcolm R., Neda Bankovic-Calic, Christen Shoesmith, Richard Buist, James Peeling. Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Department of Radiology, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada APStracts 4:0229F, 1997.
• Angiotensin ii and vasopressin stimulate calcium entry in dispersed smooth muscle cells of preglomerular arterioles. Iversen, Bjarne M., and William J. Arendshorst. Department of Physiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7545 APStracts 4:0230F, 1997.
• Blood pressure variability and urine flow in the conscious dog. Nafz, Benno, Heimo Ehmke, Claus D. Wagner, Hartmut R. Kirchheim+ and Pontus B. Persson. Institut f[umlaut]ur Physiologie der Charit[acute]e, Humboldt Universit[umlaut]at zu Berlin +I. Physiologisches Institut der Universit[umlaut]at Heidelberg APStracts 4:0231F, 1997.
• Recovery of cellular functions following oxidant injury. Nowak, Grazyna, Michael D. Aleo, Jan A. Morgan, and Rick G. Schnellmann. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, 4301 West Markham St., Little Rock, AR 72205-7199, Pfizer Inc, Central Research Division, Eastern Point Road, Groton, CT 06340 APStracts 4:0232F, 1997.
• Isolation and characterization of kidney-specific clc-k1 chloride channel gene promoter. Uchida, Shinichi, Tatemitsu Rai, Hiroshi Yatsushige, Yoshihiro Matsumura, Masanobu Kawasaki, Sei Sasaki, and Fumiaki Marumo. Second Department of Internal Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, School of Medicine, Shinichi Uchida, 1-5-45 APStracts 4:0233F, 1997.
• Integrating multiple paracrine regulators of renal microvascular dynamics. Navar, L. Gabriel. Department of Physiology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA APStracts 4:0234F, 1997.
• Development of ph regulatory transport in glomerular mesangial cells. Ganz, Michael B., and Brett A. Saksa. Department of Medicine, Section of Nephrology, Case Western Reserve University Department of Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio 44106 APStracts 4:0235F, 1997.
• Extrarenal resistance to atrial natriuretic peptide in rats with experimental nephrotic syndrome. Valentin, Jean-Pierre, Wei-Zhong Ying, William G. Couser, and Michael H. Humphreys. Divisions of Nephrology, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA and University of Washington, Seattle, WA. APStracts 4:0236F, 1997.
• Copper metabolism in the kidney of rats administered copper and copper-metallothionein. Kurasaki, Masaaki, Masashi Okabe, Shigeru Saito, and Mika Suzuki -Kurasaki. Department of Environmental Medicine and Informatics, Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060, Japan. APStracts 4:0237F, 1997.
• Nitroflurbiprofen, a novel nonsteroidal antiinflammatory, ameliorates structural injury in the remnant kidney. Fujihara, Clarice Kazue, Denise Maria Avancini Costa Malheiros, Jose Lus Donato, Anicleto Poli, Gilberto De Nucci, and Roberto Zatz. Renal Division, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of S[pi]o Paulo School of Medicine, Sao Paulo, and Department of Pharmacology, State University of Campinas School of Medicine, Campinas, Brazil APStracts 4:0238F, 1997.
• Axial heterogeneity of sodium bicarbonate cotransporter (nbc) expression in the rabbit proximal tubule . Abuladze, N., I. Lee, D. Newman, J. Hwang, A. Pushkin, and I. Kurtz. Division of Nephrology, Center for Health Sciences, UCLA School of Medicine,Los Angeles, Ca, 90095-1698 APStracts 4:0239F, 1997.
• Isolation and characterization of the lower portion of the thin limb of henle in primary culture:. Grupp, Clemens, Michael Begher, David Cohen, Michael Raghunath, Hans -Eduard Franz, Gerhard A. M[umlaut]uller. Abteilung Nephrologie und Rheumatologie, Georg-August -Universit[umlaut]at G[diaeresis]ottingen, Robert-Koch-Str. 40, D -37075 G[diaeresis]ottingen, Germany. Telephone: 0049 - 551 6331, Telefax: 0049 - 551 8906, e-mail: cgrupp@gwdg.de, and Sektion Nephrologie, Universit[umlaut]at Ulm, Robert-Koch-Str. 8, D-89070 Ulm, Germany APStracts 4:0240F, 1997.
• Documentation of angiotensin ii receptors in glomerular epithelial cells.. Sharma, Mukut, Ram Sharma, Andrew. S. Greene, Ellen. T. McCarthy, and Virginia J. Savin. Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Department of Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI APStracts 4:0241F, 1997.
• Identification of gene family of caspases in rat kidney and altered expression in ischemia/reperfusion injury. Kaushal, Gur P., Amar B. Singh, Sudhir V. Shah. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Division of Nephrology, 4301 W. Markham Street, Slot 501, Little Rock, Arkansas 72205 and John L. McClellan Memorial V.A. Hospital, 4300 W. Seventh Street, Little Rock, Arkansas 72205 APStracts 4:0242F, 1997.
• Differential effects of carbachol and vasopressin on phosphoinositide signaling in rat inner medullary collecting duct. Chou, Chung-Lin, Sonia I. Rapko, and Mark A. Knepper. Laboratory of Kidney and Electrolyte Metabolism, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892. APStracts 4:0243F, 1997.
• Differential effects of ace and at-1 receptor inhibition on chemoattractant and adhesion molecule synthesis. Morrissey, Jeremiah J., and Saulo Klahr. Departments of Medicine and Cell Biology, Washington University School of Medicine at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri USA 63110 APStracts 4:0244F, 1997.
• Effect of growth hormone on renal and systemic acid-base homeostasis in humans. Sicuro, Anita, Katia Mahlbacher, Henry N. Hulter, and Reto Krapf. Klinik B f[umlaut]ur Innere Medizin, Kantonsspital, CH-9007 St. Gallen (Switzerland) and Roche Pharmaceuticals, Palo Alto, CA 94304 APStracts 4:0245F, 1997.
• Down-regulation of nitric oxide synthase in chronic renal insufficiency: role of secondary hyperparathyroidism. Vaziri, N. D., Z. Ni, X. Q. Wang, F. Oveisi, and X. J. Zhou. Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92868 APStracts 4:0246F, 1997.