Knot, Harm J., Karen M. Lounsbury, Joseph E. Brayden, and Mark T. Nelson. Gender differences in coronary artery diameter reflect changes in both endothelial Ca21 and ecNOS activity. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 45): H961–H969, 1999.—Elevation of nitric oxide (NO) release from the vascular endothelium may contribute to some of the gender-associated differences in coronary artery fun...

People would like to communicate, learn, share, create and access information, as well as interact with objects in the physical environment, spontaneously and effortlessly as they go about their everyday lives. The field of Ubiquitous Computing aims to realize the vision that people can live harmoniously with technologies in today’s environment, analogous to the vision of Eden in which people l...

Kodama, I., M. R. Boyett, M. R. Nikmaram, M. Yamamoto, H. Honjo, and R. Niwa. Regional differences in effects of E-4031 within the sinoatrial node. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 45): H793–H802, 1999.—Effects of block of the rapid delayed rectifier K1 current (IK,r) by E-4031 on the electrical activity of small ball-like tissue preparations from different regions of the rabbit sinoat...

Clark, Howard, Lennell Allen, Erin Collins, Frederick Barr, Leland Dobbs, Gunther Putz, Jon Goerke, and Samuel Hawgood. Localization of a candidate surfactant convertase to type II cells, macrophages, and surfactant subfractions. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Lung Cell. Mol. Physiol. 20): L452–L458, 1999.—Pulmonary surfactant exists in the alveolus in several distinct subtypes that differ in their morph...

Amemiya, Morimasa, Kaoru Tabei, Eiji Kusano, Yasushi Asano, and Robert J. Alpern. Incubation of OKP cells in low-K1 media increases NHE3 activity after early decrease in intracellular pH. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Cell Physiol. 45): C711–C716, 1999.—Chronic hypokalemia increases the activity of proximal tubule apical membrane Na1/H1 antiporter NHE3. The present study examined the effect of the incub...

Rogausch, Heinz, Adriana Del Rey, Jörg Oertel, and Hugo O. Besedovsky. Norepinephrine stimulates lymphoid cell mobilization from the perfused rat spleen via b-adrenergic receptors. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 45): R724–R730, 1999.—The possibility that norepinephrine (NE) influences lymphoid cell outflow independently of its vasoconstrictor action was investigated ...

Fanestil, Darrell D., Duke A. Vaughn, Ronald H. Hyde, and Patricia Blakely. Genetic control of renal thiazide receptor response to dietary NaCl and hypertension. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 45): R901–R904, 1999.—Excess NaCl increases blood pressure in some strains of animals but not others. An 8% NaCl diet did not change renal thiazide receptor (TZR) density in tw...

Park, Kyoung Sik, Tae Kon Kim, and Do Han Kim. Cyclosporin A treatment alters characteristics of Ca21-release channel in cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 45): H865–H872, 1999.—Chronic treatment with cyclosporin A (CsA) has been reported (H. S. Banijamali, M. H. ter Keurs, L. C. Paul, and H. E. ter Keurs. Cardiovasc. Res. 27: 1845–1854, 1993; I. Kingma, E...

Hashimoto, M., K. Shinozuka, Y. Tanabe, S. Gamoh, T. Hara, M. S. Hossain, Y. M. Kwon, M. Kunitomo and S. Masumura. Hypotension induced by exercise is associated with enhanced release of adenyl purines from aged rat artery. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 45): H970–H975, 1999.—To determine whether the antihypertensive effects of exercise are associated with release of ATP and its metab...

Stallknecht, Bente, Joop Madsen, Henrik Galbo, and Jens Bülow. Evaluation of the microdialysis technique in the dog fat pad. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Endocrinol. Metab. 39): E588–E595, 1999.—In the present study the microdialysis technique was evaluated in an isolated autoperfused dog fat pad. Concentrations of glucose, lactate, and glycerol were measured in interstitial fluid by microdialysis and ...