APStracts (ISSN 1080-4757) Vol. 5, 1998

The American Physiological Society

• Active renin, prorenin and renin gene expression following reduced renal perfusion pressure in mature ovine fetuses. Rosnes, Jon S., Nancy Valego, Jinjuan Wang, Timothy Zehnder, James C. Rose. Department of Obstetrics/Gynecology and Department of Physiology/Pharmacology and Perinatal Research Laboratories. Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157 APStracts 5:0091R, 1998.
• Central mechanisms for the hypertensive effects of preproadrenomedullin derived peptides in conscious rats. Samson, Willis K., Tonya C. Murphy, and Zachary T. Resch. Department of Physiology, University of North Dakota School of Medicine, Grand Forks, North Dakota 58202-9037 APStracts 5:0092R, 1998.
• The effect of leptin on energy balance does not require the presence of intact adrenals. Arvaniti, Konstantinia, Yves Deshaies, and Denis Richard. D[acute]epartement de physiologie, Facult[acute]e de m[acute]edecine, Universit[acute]e Laval, Qu[acute]ebec, QC, Canada G1K 7P4 APStracts 5:0093R, 1998.
• Monocarboxylate transporter mct1 is located in the apical membrane and mct3 in the basal membrane of rat rpe. Philp, Nancy J., Heeyong Yoon, and Evelyn F. Grollman. Pennsylvania College of Optometry, 1200 W. Godfrey Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19141-3399; Laboratory of Biochemistry and Metabolism, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive Diseases and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, MD 20892 -1812 APStracts 5:0094R, 1998.
• Endogenous ang ii supports lumbar sympathetic activity in conscious, sodium deprived rats: role of the area postrema. Xu, Ling, John P. Collister, John W. Osborn, and Virginia L. Brooks. Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, L334, The Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR 97201-3098. Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108. Departments of Animal Science and Physiology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108 APStracts 5:0095R, 1998.
• Activation of angiotensinogen gene in cardiac myocytes by angiotensin ii and mechanical stretch. Tamura, Kouichi, Satoshi Umemura, Nobuo Nyui, Kiyoshi Hibi, Tomoaki Ishigami, Minoru Kihara, Yoshiyuki Toya, and Masao Ishii. Department of Internal Medicine II, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Yokohama 236, Japan. APStracts 5:0096R, 1998.
• Respiratory responses to selective blockade of carotid sinus baroreceptors in the dog. Hopp, Francis A., and Jeanne L. Seagard. V. A. Medical Center and Department of Anesthesia, The Medical College of Wisconsin, Research Service 151, 5000 W. National Ave. Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53295, USA. APStracts 5:0097R, 1998.
• Effects of renal medullary interstitial infusion of [ phe2ile3orn8]vasopressin on renal antihypertensive mechanisms in anesthetized rabbits. Bergstr[diaeresis]om, G[diaeresis]oran, and Roger G. Evans. Department of Physiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia. Department of Physiology, Institute of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of G[diaeresis]oteborg, Medicinareg. 11, S-413 90 G[diaeresis]oteborg, Sweden APStracts 5:0098R, 1998.
• Acth responses to crf and avp in pregnant and nonpregnant ewes. Keller-Wood, Maureen. Department of Pharmacodynamics, University of Florida College of Pharmacy, Gainesville, FL 32610 APStracts 5:0099R, 1998.
• Differential development of umbilical and systemic arteries: ii. contractile proteins. Arens, Yvonne, Rene A. Chapados, Blair E. Cox, Kristine E. Kamm, and Charles R. Rosenfeld. Departments of Pediatrics and Physiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas 75235 APStracts 5:0100R, 1998.
• Role of angiotensin ii in mediating the somato sensory induced renal nerve dependent antinatriuresis in the rat. Huang, Chunlong, and Edward J Johns. Department of Physiology, The Medical School, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom APStracts 5:0101R, 1998.
• Truett ge et al misty (m) affects growth traits. Truett, Gary E., Robert J. Tempelman, Jerilyn A. Walker, and J. Krause Wilson. Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70808; Department of Animal Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824. APStracts 5:0102R, 1998.
• Effect of calcium on development of amiloride-blockable na+ transport in axolotl in vitro. Takada, Makoto, Hideko Yai, and Shinji Komazaki. Department of Physiology and Department of Anatomy, Saitama Medical School, Moroyama, Iruma-gun, Saitama 350-04 Japan APStracts 5:0103R, 1998.
• Expression of (2-macroglobulin by the interaction between hepatocytes and endothelial cells in co-culture.. Talamini, Mark A., Michael P. McCluskey, Timothy G. Buchman, and Antonio De Maio. Department of Surgery and Physiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore MD 21287, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine#, St. Louis, MO. APStracts 5:0104R, 1998.
• Characterization of a primary cell culture model of the avian renal proximal tubule. Sutterlin, Gayle Gocek, and Gary Laverty. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716 APStracts 5:0105R, 1998.
• Nitric oxide in the ventrolateral medulla regulates sympathetic responses to systemic hypoxia in pigs. Zanzinger, Johannes, J[umlaut]urgen Czachurski, Horst Seller. I. Physiologisches Institut, Universit[umlaut]at Heidelberg, Germany APStracts 5:0106R, 1998.
• Vasodilation elicited by liposomal vip is unimpeded by anti-vip antibody in hamster cheek pouch. Ikezaki, Hiroyuki, Sudhir Paul, Hayat Alkan -[diaeresis]ony[umlaut]uksel, Manisha Patel, Xiao-Pei Gao, and Israel Rubinstein. Departments of Medicine and Pharmaceutics and Pharmacodynamics, University of Illinois at Chicago, and West Side Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois 60612, and Department of Anesthesiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska 68198 APStracts 5:0107R, 1998.
• Different relationships among norepinephrine release, uptake and spillover in Human Heart, Kidneys, and Forearm. Kopin, Irwin J., Bengt Rundqvist, Peter Friberg, Jacques Lenders, David S. Goldstein, Graeme Eisenhofer. Clinical Neuroscience Branch, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Heath, Bethesda, Md. 20892; Department of Physiology, G[diaeresis]oteborg University, G[diaeresis]oteborg, Sweden; and the Department of Internal Medicine, St. Radboud University Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands APStracts 5:0108R, 1998.
• Mode of action of ob protein (leptin) on feeding. Flynn, Mark C., and Carlos R. Plata-Salam[acute]an. Division of Molecular Biology, School of Life and Health Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716-2590, U.S.A. APStracts 5:0109R, 1998.
• Signaling the brain in systemic inflammation: which vagal branch is involved in fever genesis?. Simons, Christopher T., Vladimir A. Kulchitsky, Naotoshi Sugimoto, Louis D. Homer, Miklos Sz[acute]ekely, and Andrej A. Romanovsky. Thermoregulation Laboratory, Clinical Research and Technology, Legacy Holladay Park Medical Center, Portland, Oregon 97208-3950 APStracts 5:0110R, 1998.
• Capsaicin activates heat loss and heat production simultaneously and independently in rats. Kobayashi, Akiko, Toshimasa Osaka, Yoshio Namba, Shuji Inoue, Tai Hee Lee, and Shuichi Kimura. Showa Women's University Graduate School, 1-7 Taishido, Setagaya -ku, Tokyo 154, Japan; 2National Institute of Health and Nutrition, 1 -23-1 Toyama, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162, Japan; and Department of Internal Medicine, Chonnam National University, 8-Hokdong, Kwangju City 501-190, Korea APStracts 5:0111R, 1998.
• Interleukin-1? converting enzyme deficient mice resist central but not systemic endotoxin-induced anorexia. Burgess, William, Gilles Gheusi, Jianhua Yao, Rodney W. Johnson, Robert Dantzer, and Keith W. Kelley. Laboratories of Immunophysiology and Integrative Biology, Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, 61801 and Neurobiologie Integrative, INRA-INSERM U394 Bordeaux, France APStracts 5:0112R, 1998.
• Constitutive expression of cyclooxygenase-2 (cox-2) in rat vas deferens. McKanna, James A., Ming-Zhi Zhang, Jun-Ling Wang, H-F Cheng, and Raymond C. Harris. George M. O'Brien Center for Kidney and Urologic Diseases and Department of Cell Biology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232 APStracts 5:0113R, 1998.
• The beta2-agonist ritodrine, unlike endogenous catecholamines, prematurely activates thermogenesis in utero in the fetal sheep . Bassett, John M, and Michael E Symonds. Growth and Development Unit, University of Oxford, University Field Laboratory, Wytham, OXFORD OX2 8QJ; and School of Animal and Microbial Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 228, READING RG6 6AJ, United Kingdom APStracts 5:0114R, 1998.
• "biphasic" fevers often consist of more than two phases. Romanovsky, Andrej A., Christopher T. Simons, and Vladimir A. Kulchitsky. Thermoregulation Laboratory, Legacy Holladay Park Medical Center APStracts 5:0115R, 1998.
• Methodology of fever research: why are polyphasic fevers often thought to be biphasic?. Romanovsky, Andrej A., Vladimir A. Kulchitsky, Christopher T. Simons, and Naotoshi Sugimoto. Thermoregulation Laboratory, Legacy Holladay Park Medical Center Portland, Oregon 97208-3950 APStracts 5:0116R, 1998.
• Reduction of n-methyl-d-aspartate receptor activity in cerebrocortex of turtles (chrysemys picta) during 6 weeks of anoxia. Bickler, P. E. Department of Anesthesia, University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, CA 94143-0542, email: phil_bickler@quickmail.ucsf.edu, phone (415) 476-1411, fax (415) 476-8841 APStracts 5:0117R, 1998.
• A physiological strain index (psi) to evaluate heat stress. Moran, Daniel S., Avraham Shitzer and Kent B. Pandolf. Dr. Daniel S. Moran, USARIEM, 42 Kansas St., Natick 01760-5007 MA, Tl. 508-2335858, Fax 508-2335298, E-mail: dmoran@natick -ccmail.army.mil APStracts 5:0118R, 1998.
• Effect of chronic bradykinin administration on insulin action in an animal model of insulin resistance. Henriksen, Erik J., Stephan Jacob, Donovan L. Fogt and Guenther J. Dietze. Muscle Metabolism Laboratory, Department of Physiology, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ 85721-0093; and 2 Hypertension and Diabetes Research Unit, Max-Grundig-Klinik, 77815 Bhl, Germany. APStracts 5:0119R, 1998.
• Central angiotensin at1 and muscarinic receptors in inducible transcription factor expression upon icv nacl. Moellenhoff, E., C. J. Lebrun, A. Blume, J. Culman, T. Herdegen, and Th. Unger. Department of Pharmacology, University of Kiel, 24105 Kiel and German Institute for High Blood Pressure Research, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany APStracts 5:0120R, 1998.
• Bcl-2 and bax expression in adult rat hearts following coronary occlusion: age-associated differences. Liu, Lixin, Gohar Azhar, Wei Gao, Xiaomin Zhang, Jeanne Y. Wei. Division on Aging, Harvard Medical School; Gerontology Division, Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215. APStracts 5:0121R, 1998.
• Inhibition of gastric emptying in response to intestinal lipid is dependent on chylomicron formation. Raybould, Helen E., James H. Meyer, Yuri Tabrizi, Rodger A. Liddle, and Patrick Tso. CURE/Digestive Diseases Research Center, Depts of Physiology and Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine, VAMC West Los Angeles, Dept of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina and Dept of Pathology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio APStracts 5:0122R, 1998.
• Pharmacological characterization of atp receptors in ampulla from frog semicircular canal. Butlen, Daniel, Christian Bernard and Evelyne Ferrary . 1 Institut National de la Sant[acute]e et de la Recherche M[acute]edicale, Unit[acute]e 426, Facult[acute]e de M[acute]edecine Xavier Bichat, 75870 Paris Cedex 18, France; and 2 Laboratoire de Neurophysiologie Sensorielle, Universit[acute]e de Rouen, 76821 Mont -Saint-Aignan Cedex, France APStracts 5:0123R, 1998.
• Neural site of leptin influence on neuropeptide y signaling pathways altering feeding and uncoupling protein. Kotz, Catherine M., Jacqueline E. Briggs, James D. Pomonis, Martha K. Grace, Allen S. Levine, Charles J. Billington. Minnesota Obesity Center, Departments of Food Science and Nutrition, Psychiatry, Medicine and Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, 1334 Eckles Avenue, Saint Paul, MN 55108, USA Veterans Affairs Medical Center, One Veterans Drive, Research Route 151, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA. APStracts 5:0124R, 1998.
• Effects of varied fatigue protocols on sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium uptake and release rates. Ward, Christopher W., Espen E. Spangenburg, Lilian M. Diss, and Jay H. Williams. Muscular Function Laboratory, Department of Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA APStracts 5:0125R, 1998.
• Reserve capacities of the small intestine for absorption of energy. Weber, E., and H. J. Ehrlein . Institute of Zoophysiology, University of Hohenheim, D- 70593 Stuttgart - Germany APStracts 5:0126R, 1998.
• Eta receptor blockade attenuates the hypertension but not renal dysfunction in doca-salt rats. Allcock, Graham H., Richard C. Venema, and David M. Pollock. David M. Pollock, Vascular Biology Center, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA 30912-2500, Tel: (706) 721 8517, Fax: (706) 721 8545, email: dpollock@mail.mcg.edu APStracts 5:0127R, 1998.
• Increased physical activity and the growth hormone-insulin-like growth factor-i axis in adolescent males. Eliakim, Alon, Jo Anne Brasel, Subburaman Mohan, Wai Lee T. Wong, and Dan M. Cooper. Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, Department of Pediatrics, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90509, Departments of Medicine, Biochemistry, and Physiology, Loma Linda University, Pettis Veteran's Administration Medical Center, Loma Linda, CA 92357, Department of Bioanalytical Technology, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA 94080, Department of Pediatrics, University of California Irvine College of Medicine, Irvine, CA 92697 APStracts 5:0128R, 1998.
• Plasma metabolites of quercetin and their antioxidant properties. Morand, Christine, Vanessa Crespy, Claudine Manach, Catherine Besson, Christian Demigne, Christian Remesy. Laboratoire des Maladies M[acute]etaboliques et des Micronutriments, I.N.R.A. de Clermont-Ferrand/Theix, 63122 St Gen[grave]es-Champanelle, France APStracts 5:0129R, 1998.
• Spinal segments communicating resting sympathetic activity to postganglionic nerves of the stellate ganglion. Kocsis, Bernat, and Katalin Gyimesi-Pelczer. National Institute of Neurosurgery, Budapest, Hungary APStracts 5:0130R, 1998.
• Role of paraventricular nucleus parvicellular neurons in the compensatory responses to graded hemorrhage. Blair, M. L., A. Want, J. A. Olschowka, and D. Piekut. Departments of Pharmacology & Physiology, and Neurobiology & Anatomy, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY 14642 APStracts 5:0131R, 1998.
• Role of plasma osmolality in the delayed onset of thermoregulatory cutaneous vasodilation during exercise in humans. Takamata, Akira, Kei Nagashima, Hiroshi Nose, and Taketoshi Morimoto. Department of Physiology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto 602-0841, JAPAN APStracts 5:0132R, 1998.
• A rt-pcr study of the distribution of connexin 43 mrna in the glomerulus and renal tubular segments. Guo, Rong, Li Liu, Luciano Barajas. Department of Pathology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, 1000 West Carson Street, Torrance, California 90509 APStracts 5:0133R, 1998.
• Chronic administration of ob protein decreases food intake by selectively reducing meal size in female rats.. Eckel, Lisa A., Wolfgang Langhans, Andrea Kahler, L. Arthur Campfield, Fran[cedilla]coise J. Smith, and Nori Geary. E. W. Bourne Laboratory, New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, White Plains, NY; Institute for Animal Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland; Department of Metabolic Diseases, Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., Nutley, NJ APStracts 5:0134R, 1998.
• Chronic administration of ob protein decreases spontaneous food intake by reducing meal size in male rats. Kahler, Andrea, Nori Geary, Lisa A. Eckel, L. Arthur Campfield, Francoise J. Smith, and Wolfgang Langhans. Institute for Animal Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland, New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, White Plains, NY; Department of Metabolic Diseases, Hoffmann -La Roche Inc., Nutley, NJ. APStracts 5:0135R, 1998.
• Chronic lymph flow responses to hyperproteinemia. Manning, By R. Davis, Jr. Department Of Physiology, and Biophysics, University Of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, Usa. R. Davis Manning, Jr., Ph.D., Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, 2500 North State Street, Jackson, MS 39216-4505, Phone: (601) 984-1813, FAX: (601) 984-1817 APStracts 5:0136R, 1998.
• Medullary cfos activation in rats after ingestion of a satiating meal. Rinaman, L., E. A. Baker, G. E. Hoffman, E. M. Stricker, and J. G. Verbalis. Department of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260; Department of Medicine, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 20007; and Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261 APStracts 5:0137R, 1998.
• Area postrema lesions block suppression of estrous behavior, but not estrous cyclicity, in food-deprived syrian hamsters. Panicker, Anitha K., Robert A. Mangels, J. Bradley Powers, George N. Wade, and Jill E. Schneider. Center for Neuroendocrine Studies, Neuroscience and Behavior Program, and Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003-7720 and Department of Biological Sciences, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015 APStracts 5:0138R, 1998.
• Resetting of renal blood autoregulation during acute blood pressure reduction in hypertensive rats. Iversen, Bjarne M., Fred Ivan Kvam, Knut Matre, and Jarle Ofstad. Renal Research group, Medical department A, University of Bergen, Norway APStracts 5:0139R, 1998.
• The effects of sleep deprivation in neonatal rats. Frank, Marcos G., Roger Morrissette, H. Craig Heller. Dept. of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305 APStracts 5:0140R, 1998.
• Abnormal platelet calcium handling accompanied by increased cytosolic free magnesium in essential hypertension. Hiraga, Hiroyuki, Tetsuya Oshima, Mitsuisa Yoshimura, Hideo Matsuura, Goro Kajiyama. First Department of Internal Medicine and Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Hiroshima University School of Medicine, Hiroshima, Japan APStracts 5:0141R, 1998.
• Regulation of skeletal muscle glycogen phosphorylase and pyruvate dehydrogenase at varying exercise power outputs. Howlett, Richard A., Michelle L. Parolin, David J. Dyck, Eric Hultman, Norman L. Jones, George J. F. Heigenhauser, and Lawrence L. Spriet. Department of Human Biology and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph Ontario, N1G 2W1, Canada, Department of Clinical Chemistry, Huddinge University Hospital, Karolinska Institute, S-141 86 Huddinge, Sweden, and Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8N 3Z5, Canada APStracts 5:0142R, 1998.
• Effects of renal medullary interstitial infusion of [ phe2ile3orn8]vasopressin on renal antihypertensive mechanisms in anesthetized rabbits. Bergstr[diaeresis]om, G[diaeresis]oran, and Roger G. Evans. Department of Physiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia APStracts 5:0143R, 1998.
• Role of il-6 and tnf in thermoregulation and survival during sepsis in mice. Leon, Lisa R., Andrew A. White, Matthew J. Kluger. Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, P.O. Box 5890, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185 APStracts 5:0144R, 1998.
• Effects of adrenalectomy and subsequent corticosterone replacement on rat sleep state and eeg power spectra. Bradbury, Margaret J., William C. Dement, and Dale M. Edgar. Sleep Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305 APStracts 5:0145R, 1998.
• Catechol activation in rat rostral ventrolateral medulla following systemic isocapnic metabolic acidosis. Rentero, N, N Bruandet, B Milne, L Quintin. Physiology, School of Medicine, Lyon, France APStracts 5:0146R, 1998.
• Central nervous system origins of the sympathetic nervous system outflow to white adipose tissue. Bamshad, Maryam, Victor T. Aoki, M. Gregory Adkison, Wade S. Warren, and Timothy J. Bartness. Departments of Psychology and of Biology, Neuropsychology and Behavioral Neurosciences, and Neurobiology Programs, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303 APStracts 5:0147R, 1998.
• Feeding behavior and entrainment limits in the rat's circadian system . Madrid, J. A., F. J. S_nchez-V_zquez, P. Lax, P. Matas, E. M. Cuenca, and S. Zamora. Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Faculty of Biology, University of Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain APStracts 5:0148R, 1998.
• Angiotensin ii infusion in vivo does not modulate cortisol secretion in the -ate gestation ovine fetus. Poore, Kirsten R., I. Ross Young, Benedict J. Canny, and Geoffrey D. Thorburn. Department of Physiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3168, Australia APStracts 5:0149R, 1998.
• Central losartan blocks natriuretic, vasopressin, and pressor responses to central hypertonic nacl in sheep. Mathai, Michael L., Mark D. Evered, and Michael J. McKinley. Howard Florey Institute of Experimental Physiology and Medicine, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 3052 and Dept of Physiology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada APStracts 5:0150R, 1998.
• Regulation of jejunal sodium and water absorption by angiotensin subtype receptors in the rat: role of cyclic nucleotides and prostaglandin e2. Jin, Xiao-Hong, Zhi-Qin Wang, Helmy M. Siragy, Richard L. Guerrant, Robert M. Carey. Department of Medicine, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, VA 22908 APStracts 5:0151R, 1998.
• Metabolic inhibition increases feeding and brain fos-like immunoreactivity as a function of diet . Horn, Charles C., and Mark I. Friedman. Department of Psychology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA; Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA APStracts 5:0152R, 1998.
• Eating induced by perifornical hypothalamic camp is behaviorally selective and involves protein kinase activity. Gillard, Elizabeth R., Arshad M. Khan, Bara Mouradi, Omkar Nalamwar, and B. Glenn Stanley. Dept. of Pharmacology, 9-36 Med. Sci. Bldg., Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6GOK6, Phone (403)492-2853, FAX (403)492 -4325 APStracts 5:0153R, 1998.
• Effect of changing body temperature on the ventilatory and metabolic responses of lean and obese zucker rats. Maskrey, Michael, David Megirian, and Gaspar A. Farkas. Department of Physical Therapy, Exercise and Nutrition Science, School of Health Related Professions, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York 14214-3079 APStracts 5:0154R, 1998.
• Angiotensin ii modulates respiratory and acid-base responses to prolonged hypoxia in conscious dogs. Heitman, Steven J., and Donald B. Jennings. Department of Physiology, Queen_s University, Kingston, Ontario CANADA K7L 3N6 APStracts 5:0155R, 1998.
• Vagal and splanchnic afferents are not necessary for the feeding suppressive effects of peripheral il-1, lps, and mdp. Porter, M. H., B. J. Hrupka, W. Langhans, and G. J. Schwartz. Institute for Animal Sciences, Physiology and Animal Husbandry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205 USA APStracts 5:0156R, 1998.
• Prolonged nos inhibition in the brain elevates blood pressure in normotensive rats. Sakima, Atsushi, Hiroshi Teruya, Masanobu Yamazato, Rijiko Matayoshi, Hiromi Muratani, and Koshiro Fukiyama. Third Department of Internal Medicine, University of the Ryukyus School of Medicine, 207 Uehara, Nishihara-cho, Okinawa 903-01, Japan APStracts 5:0157R, 1998.
• Rapid brain cooling in diving ducks. Caputa, Micha, Lars Folkow, and Arnoldus Schytte Blix. Department of Arctic Biology and Institute of Medical Biology, University of Tromso, N-9037 Tromso, Norway, Department of Animal Physiology, N Copernicus University, 87-100 Toru[tilde]n, Poland APStracts 5:0158R, 1998.
• Inhibition of renal arachidonic acid w-hydroxylase activity with 1 -aminobenzotriazole reduces blood pressure in the spontaneously hypertensive rat. Su, Ping, K. Maya Kaushal, and Deanna L. Kroetz. Departments of Biopharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, and the Liver Center, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143 APStracts 5:0159R, 1998.
• Angiotensin-ii at1 receptors induce depolarization and inward current in rat median preoptic neurons in vitro. Bai, Donglin, and Leo P. Renaud. Lab of origin: Neurosciences, Loeb Research Institute, Ottawa Civic Hospital & University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1Y 4E9 APStracts 5:0160R, 1998.
• Liposomal vip attenuates phenylephrine- and angiotensin ii-induced vasoconstriction in vivo. Ikezaki, Hiroyuki, Hayat Alkan-[diaeresis]ony[umlaut]uksel, and Israel Rubinstein. Department of Medicine and Pharmaceutics and Pharmacodynamics, University of Illinois at Chicago, and West Side Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois 60612 APStracts 5:0161R, 1998.
• Neural site of leptin influence on neuropeptide y signaling pathways altering feeding and uncoupling protein. Kotz, Catherine M., Jacqueline E. Briggs, James D. Pomonis, Martha K. Grace, Allen S. Levine, Charles J. Billington. Minnesota Obesity Center, Departments of Food Science and Nutrition, Psychiatry, Medicine and Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, 1334 Deckles Avenue, Saint Paul, MN 55108, USA Veterans Affairs Medical Center, One Veterans Drive, Research Route 151, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA. APStracts 5:0162R, 1998.
• Systemic [alpha]-msh suppresses lps fever via central melanocortin receptors, independently of its suppression of corticosterone and il -6 release. Huang, Qin-Heng, Victor J. Hruby, and Jeffrey B. Tatro. Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism and Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine and the Tupper Research Institute, Tufts University School of Medicine and New England Medical Center Hospitals, Boston, MA 02111; Department of Chemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 APStracts 5:0163R, 1998.
• Ontogeny of neuropeptide y expression in response to deprivation in lean zucker rat pups. Kowalski, Timothy J., Thomas A. Houpt, Jeoungwon Jahng, Nori Okada, Streamson C. Chua, Jr., and Gerard P. Smith. E. W. Bourne Laboratory NY Hospital-Cornell Medical Center 21 Bloomingdale Road White Plains, NY 10605, Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology, Burke Medical Research Institute, Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, White Plains, NY 10605, Laboratory of Human Behavior and Metabolism, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021 APStracts 5:0164R, 1998.