Takito, Jiro, Lunbiao Yan, Jian Ma, Chinami Hikita, S. Vijayakumar, D. Warburton, and Qais Al-Awqati. Hensin, the polarity reversal protein, is encoded by DMBT1, a gene frequently deleted in malignant gliomas. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Renal Physiol. 46): F277–F289, 1999.—The band 3 anion exchanger is located in the apical membrane of a b-intercalated clonal cell line, whereas the vacuolar H1ATPase ...

Itoh, Hiroaki, Jing Zheng, Ian M. Bird, Kazuwa Nakao, and Ronald R. Magness. Basic FGF decreases clearance receptor of natriuretic peptides in fetoplacental artery endothelium. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R541–R547, 1999.—Atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) is present in the fetoplacental circulation of humans and sheep. The ANP-A receptor is the specific membra...

MICHAEL KJÆR,1 BIRGITTE HANEL,2 LARS WORM,2 GRAZYNA PERKO,2 STEVEN F. LEWIS,2 KENT SAHLIN,2 HENRIK GALBO,3 AND NIELS H. SECHER2 2Department of Anesthesia, Copenhagen Muscle Research Center, Rigshospitalet University Hospital; 3Department of Medical Physiology, Panum Institute; and 1Sports Medicine Research Unit, Department of Rheumatology H, Bispebjerg Hospital, University of Copenhagen, DK-240...

Stutzin, Andrés, Rubén Torres, Macarena Oporto, Patricio Pacheco, Ana Luisa Eguiguren, L. Pablo Cid, and Francisco V. Sepúlveda. Separate taurine and chloride efflux pathways activated during regulatory volume decrease. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Cell Physiol. 46): C392–C402, 1999.—Organic osmolyte and halide permeability pathways activated in epithelial HeLa cells by cell swelling were studied by ra...

Hassid, Aviv, Shile Huang, and Jian Yao. Role of PTP-1B in aortic smooth muscle cell motility and tyrosine phosphorylation of focal adhesion proteins. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 46): H192–H198, 1999.—Recent studies have focused attention on the role of protein tyrosine kinases in vascular smooth muscle cell biology, but similar information regarding protein tyrosine phosphatases ...

Dechent, P., P. J. W. Pouwels, B. Wilken, F. Hanefeld, and J. Frahm. Increase of total creatine in human brain after oral supplementation of creatine-monohydrate. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R698–R704, 1999.—The effect of oral creatine supplementation on brain metabolite concentrations was investigated in gray matter, white matter, cerebellum, and thalamus of...

Bahar, Sonya, Christopher T. Gunter, Cheryl Wu, Scott D. Kennedy, and Philip A. Knauf. Persistence of external chloride and DIDS binding after chemical modification of Glu-681 in human band 3. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Cell Physiol. 46): C791–C799, 1999.—Although its primary function is monovalent anion exchange, the band 3 protein also cotransports divalent anions together with protons at low pH. T...

Parfenova, Helena, John Haffner, and Charles W. Leffler. Phosphorylation-dependent stimulation of prostanoid synthesis by nigericin in cerebral endothelial cells. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Cell Physiol. 46): C728–C738, 1999.— Nigericin decreases intracellular pH (pHi) and stimulates prostanoid (PG) synthesis in endothelial cells from cerebral microvessels of newborn pigs. Nigericin-induced PG produc...

Wood, Philip G., Olga V. Lopatko, Sandra Orgeig, Jonathan R. Codd, and Christopher B. Daniels. Control of pulmonary surfactant secretion from type II pneumocytes isolated from the lizard Pogona vitticeps. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R1705–R1711, 1999.—Pulmonary surfactant, a mixture consisting of lipids and proteins and secreted by type II cells, functions to...

Silver, I., B. Li, J. Szalai, and M. Johnston. Relationship between intracranial pressure and cervical lymphatic pressure and flow rates in sheep. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R1712–R1717, 1999.— Previous reports from our group demonstrated that about one-half of the total volume of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) removed from the cranial vault in sheep is transport...