APStracts (ISSN 1080-4757) Vol. 8, 2001

The American Physiological Society

• A high-sucrose diet increases gluconeogenic capacity in isolated periportal and perivenous rat hepatocytes. Bizeau, Michael E., Jeffrey S. Thresher, and Michael J. Pagliassotti. Exercise Science Research Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona APStracts 8:0017E, 2001.
• Physiological hyperinsulinemia impairs insulin-stimulated glycogen synthase activity and glycogen synthesis. Iozzo, Patricia, Thonchai Pratipanawatr, Hanno Pijl, Christoph Vogt, Vineeta Kumar, Ruben Pipek, Masafumi Matsuda, Lawrence J. Mandarino, Kenneth J. Cusi, and Ralph A. Defronzo. Division of Diabetes, Departments of 1Medicine and Biochemistry,2 The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 78284 APStracts 8:0018E, 2001.
• Activation of NADPH oxidase by AGE links oxidant stress to altered gene expression via RAGE. Wautier, Marie-Paule, Olivier Chappey, Stefano Corda, David M. Stern, Ann Marie Schmidt, and Jean-Luc Wautier. 1Laboratoire de Biologie Vasculaire et Cellulaire, Hôpital Lariboisiere, 2Unite «inserm» 76, and 3Laboratoire Microcirculation, Biophysique Hopital Lariboisière, Paris, France 75475; and 4College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032 APStracts 8:0019E, 2001.
• High-fat hypocaloric diet modifies carbohydrate utilization of obese rats during weight loss. Cha, Ming C., Julia A. Johnson, Chang-Yun Hsu, and Carol N. Boozer. 1New York Obesity Research Center, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, New York 10025; and 2Institute of Human Nutrition, Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032 APStracts 8:0020E, 2001.
• Maternal glucocorticoid treatment programs pituitary-adrenal regulation in adult offspring: sex-specific effects. Liu, Li, Antai Li, and Stephen G. Matthews. Departments of Physiology and Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada APStracts 8:0021E, 2001.
• Adipose tissue tumor necrosis factor and interleukin-6 expression in human obesity and insulin resistance. Kern, Philip A., Subramanian Ranganathan, Chunling Li, Linda Wood, and Gouri Ranganathan. Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System, Little Rock, Arkansas 72205 APStracts 8:0022E, 2001.
• Differential effects of insulin on peripheral and visceral tissue protein synthesis in neonatal pigs. Davis, Teresa A., Marta L. Fiorotto, Philip R. Beckett, Douglas G. Burrin, Peter J. Reeds, Diane Wray-Cahen, and Hanh V. Nguyen. United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Children's Nutrition Research Center, and Endocrinology and Metabolism Section, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030 APStracts 8:0023E, 2001.
• Effects of ß-adrenergic receptor stimulation and blockade on substrate metabolism during submaximal exercise. Rodriguez, Ricardo Mora, Bradley J. Hodgkinson, Lauri O. Byerley, and Edward F. Coyle. 1The Human Performance Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712; 2University of Castilla-la Mancha at Toledo, Toledo 45071, Spain; and 3Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70808 APStracts 8:0024E, 2001.
• Involvement of upstream open reading frames in regulation of rat V1b vasopressin receptor expression. Nomura, Atsushi, Yasumasa Iwasaki, Masayuki Saito, Yoshiaki Aoki, Etsuko Yamamori, Nobuaki Ozaki, Kazushige Tachikawa, Noriko Mutsuga, Minako Morishita, Masanori Yoshida, Masato Asai, Yutaka Oiso, and Hidehiko Saito. 1First Department of Internal Medicine and 2Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Nagoya University School of Medicine and Hospital, Nagoya 466«hyphen»8560; and 3Molecular Medicine Research Laboratories, Yamanouchi Institute for Drug Discovery Research, Tsukuba 305«hyphen»0841, Japan APStracts 8:0025E, 2001.
• T3 increases mitochondrial ATP production in oxidative muscle despite increased expression of UCP-2 and -3. Short, Kevin R., Jonas Nygren, Rocco Barazzoni, James Levine, and K. Sreekumaran Nair. Endocrinology Research Unit, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 55905 APStracts 8:0026E, 2001.
• Inhibitory effect of hyperglycemia on insulin-induced Akt/protein kinase B activation in skeletal muscle. Oku, Akira, Masao Nawano, Kiichiro Ueta, Takuya Fujita, Itsuro Umebayashi, Kenji Arakawa, Tomomi Kano-Ishihara, Akira Saito, Motonobu Anai, Makoto Funaki, Masayoshi Kikuchi, Yoshitomo Oka, and Tomoichiro Asano. 1Discovery Research Laboratory, Tanabe Seiyaku Co. Ltd., Saitama 335«hyphen»8505; 2Third Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113«hyphen»8655; 3Institute for Adult Disease, Asahi Life Foundation, Tokyo 116; and 4Third Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi 755, Japan APStracts 8:0027E, 2001.
• Cysteine regulates expression of cysteine dioxygenase and ?-glutamylcysteine synthetase in cultured rat hepatocytes. Kwon, Young Hye, and Martha H. Stipanuk. Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 APStracts 8:0028E, 2001.
• Adaptation of ß-cell mass to substrate oversupply: enhanced function with normal gene expression. Steil, Garry M., Nitin Trivedi, Jean-Christophe Jonas, Wendy M. Hasenkamp, Arun Sharma, Susan Bonner-Weir, and Gordon C. Weir. Section of Islet Transplantation and Cell Biology, Research Division, Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 APStracts 8:0029E, 2001.
• Endurance training and GH administration in elderly women: effects on abdominal adipose tissue lipolysis. Lange, Kai Henrik Wiborg, Jeanne Lorentsen, Fredrik Isaksson, Anders Juul, Michael Højby Rasmussen, Niels Juel Christensen, Jens Bülow, and Michael Kjær. 1Sports Medicine Research Unit, Bispebjerg Hospital, DK-2400; 2Department of Clinical Physiology, Bispebjerg Hospital, DK-2400 Copenhagen NV; 3Copenhagen Muscle Research Center, Rigshospitalet, DK-2100; 4Department of Growth and Reproduction, Rigshospitalet, DK-2100 Copenhagen; 5Clinical Drug Development, Novo Nordisk A/S, DK-2880 Bagsvaerd; and 6Department of Endocrinology, Herlev Hospital, DK-2730 Herlev, Denmark APStracts 8:0030E, 2001.