APStracts (ISSN 1080-4757) Vol. 10, 2003

The American Physiological Society

• Renal uptake of myoglobin is mediated by the endocytic receptors megalin and cubilin. Gburek, Jakub, Henrik Birn, Pierre J. Verroust, Boguslawa Goj, Christian Jacobsen, Søren K. Moestrup, Thomas E. Willnow, and Erik I. Christensen. Departments of 1Cell Biology and 4Medical Biochemistry, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark; 2Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland; 3Institut Nationale de la Santé et de la Recherche Medicalé Unité 538, CHU, St..-Antoine, 75012 Paris, France; and 5Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany APStracts 10:0110F, 2003.
• Immortalized epithelial cells from human autosomal dominant polycystic kidney cysts. Loghman-Adham, Mahmoud, Surya M. Nauli, Carlos E. Soto, Barbara Kariuki, and Jing Zhou. Department of Pediatrics and Pediatric Research Institute, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri; and Harvard Institutes of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts APStracts 10:0111F, 2003.
• Angiotensin receptor subtypes in thin and muscular juxtamedullary efferent arterioles of rat kidney. Helou, Claudia M. B., Martine Imbert-Teboul, Alain Doucet, Rabary Rajerison, Catherine Chollet, François Alhenc-Gelas, and Jeannine Marchetti. 1Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité 367, Physiologie et Pathologie Expérimentale Vasculaires, Université Paris VI, 75005 Paris; and 2Laboratoire de Biologie Intégrée des Cellules Rénales, Unité de Recherche Associée 1859 au Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France APStracts 10:0112F, 2003.
• Smad3 and PKCd mediate TGF-ß1-induced collagen I expression in human mesangial cells. Runyan, Constance E., H. William Schnaper, and Anne-Christine Poncelet. Northwestern University, Pediatrics, Chicago, Illinois 60611 APStracts 10:0113F, 2003.
• Angiotensin blocks substance P release from renal sensory nerves by inhibiting PGE2-mediated activation of cAMP. Kopp, Ulla C., Michael Z. Cicha, and Lori A. Smith. Departments of Internal Medicine and Pharmacology, Department of Veterans Affairs, Medical Center, and University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52242 APStracts 10:0114F, 2003.
• Lack of a functional p21WAF1/CIP1 gene accelerates caspase-independent apoptosis induced by cisplatin in renal cells. Nowak, Grazyna, Peter M. Price, and Rick G. Schnellmann. Departments of 1Pharmaceutical Sciences and 2Internal Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas 72205; and 3Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina 29425 APStracts 10:0115F, 2003.
• Increased expression of H+-ATPase in inner medullary collecting duct of aquaporin- 1-deficient mice. Kim, Young-Hee, Jin Kim, A. S. Verkman, and Kirsten M. Madsen. 1Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610«hyphen»0215; 2Department of Anatomy, Catholic University Medical College, Seoul, Korea; and 3Departments of Medicine and Physiology, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, California APStracts 10:0116F, 2003.
• Localization of Mg2+-sensing shark kidney calcium receptor skcar in kidney of spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias). Hentschel, Hartmut, Jacqueline Nearing,H. William Harris, Marlies Betka, Michelle Baum, Steven C. Hebert, and Marlies Elger. 1Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology, D-44229 Dortmund;3MariCal, Incorporated, Portland, Maine 04101; 4Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115; 5Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520; 6Department of Nephrology, Hannover Medical School, 30625 Hannover, Germany; and 2Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Salsbury Cove, Maine 04672 APStracts 10:0117F, 2003.
• Selective blockade of lysophosphatidic acid LPA3 receptors reduces murine renal ischemia-reperfusion injury. Okusa, Mark D., Hong Ye, Liping Huang, Laura Sigismund, Timothy Macdonald, and Kevin R. Lynch. Departments of 1Medicine, 2Chemistry, and 3Pharmacology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908 APStracts 10:0118F, 2003.
• Feline interstitial cystitis results in mechanical hypersensitivity and altered ATP release from bladder urothelium. Birder, L. A., S. Barrick, J. R. Roppolo, A. Kanai, W. C. de Groat, S. Kiss, and C. A. Buffington. Departments of 1Medicine-Laboratory of Epithelial Cell Biology and 2Pharmacology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213; and 3Clinical Veterinary Sciences, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210 APStracts 10:0119F, 2003.
• Inhibition of heme oxygenase decreases sodium and fluid absorption in the loop of Henle. Wang, Tong, Hyacinth Sterling, Wei A. Shao, QingShang Yan, Matthew A. Bailey, Gerhard Giebisch, and WenHui Wang. 1Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; and 2Department of Pharmacology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York APStracts 10:0120F, 2003.
• Chronic acidosis-induced alteration in bone bicarbonate and phosphate. Bushinsky, David A., Susan B. Smith, Konstantin L. Gavrilov, Leonid F. Gavrilov, Jianwei Li, and Riccardo Levi-Setti. 1Nephrology Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, New York 14642; and 2Department of Physics, Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637 APStracts 10:0121F, 2003.
• An internal enhancer regulates heme and cadmium-mediated induction of human heme oxygenase-1. Hill-Kapturczak, Nathalie, Eric Sikorski, Christy Voakes, Jairo Garcia, Harry S. Nick, and Anupam Agarwal. 1Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Hypertension, and Transplantation, and 2Department of Neuroscience, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610 APStracts 10:0122F, 2003.
• Epithelial Na+ channel mutants causing Liddle's syndrome retain ability to respond to aldosterone and vasopressin. Auberson, Muriel, Nicole Hoffmann-Pochon, A. Vandewalle, Stephan Kellenberger, and Laurent Schild. 1Institut de Pharmacologie et Toxicologie, Université de Lausanne, CH-1005 Lausanne, Switzerland; and 2Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Unité 478, Faculté de Médecine Xavier Bichat, BP 416, 75870 Paris Cedex 18, France APStracts 10:0123F, 2003.
• Determinants of renal afferent arteriolar actions of bradykinin: evidence for multiple pathways mediating vasodilator responses attributed to EDHF. Wang, Xuemei, Greg Trottier, and Rodger Loutzenhiser. Smooth Muscle Research Group, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 4N1 APStracts 10:0124F, 2003.
• Acute application of TNF stimulates apical 70-pS K+ channels in the thick ascending limb of rat kidney. Wei, Yuan, Elisa Babilonia, Paulina L. Pedraza, Nicholas R. Ferreri, and WenHui Wang. Department of Pharmacology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York 10595 APStracts 10:0125F, 2003.
• Physiology and pathology of endothelin-1 in renal mesangium. Sorokin, Andrey, and Donald E. Kohan. 1Division of Nephrology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226; and 2Division of Nephrology, University of Utah Health Sciences Center and Salt Lake Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah 84132 APStracts 10:0126F, 2003.
• Effect of altered Na+ entry on expression of apical and basolateral transport proteins in A6 epithelia. Lebowitz, Jonathan, Bing An, Robert S. Edinger, Mark L. Zeidel, and John P. Johnson. Renal-Electrolyte Division, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania APStracts 10:0127F, 2003.
• Hydrostatic pressure-regulated ion transport in bladder uroepithelium. Wang, Edward C. Y., Jey-Myung Lee, John P. Johnson, Thomas Kleyman, Robert Bridges, and Gerard Apodaca. 2Renal-Electrolyte Division, Department of Medicine, and 1Laboratory of Epithelial Cell Biology, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261 APStracts 10:0128F, 2003.
• Immunolocalization of a microsomal prostaglandin E synthase in rabbit kidney. Fuson, Amanda L., Peter Komlosi, Tino M. Unlap, P. Darwin Bell, and János Peti- Peterdi. Nephrology Research and Training Center, Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294 APStracts 10:0129F, 2003.