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...

Teff, Karen L., and Raymond R. Townsend. Early phase insulin infusion and muscarinic blockade in obese and lean subjects. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R198–R208, 1999.—The effect of early phase insulin on postprandial levels of insulin, C-peptide, glucose, and glucagon was investigated in lean (n 5 10) and obese (n 5 12) subjects. Subjects underwent four condi...

DOUGLAS N. HENRY,1,2 JULIA V. BUSIK,1 FRANK C. BROSIUS III,3 AND CHARLES W. HEILIG4 1Department of Physiology, 2Department of Pediatrics and Human Development, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824-1101; 3Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Michigan Medical School and Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Hos...

Soriano-Garcı́a, Juan F., Mònica Torras-Llort, Miquel Moretó, and Ruth Ferrer. Regulation of L-methionine and L-lysine uptake in chicken jejunal brush-border membrane by dietary methionine. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R1654–R1661, 1999.—In the chicken intestine, L-methionine is transported by systems that are specific for neutral amino acids (Land B-like) and ...

Moore, Craig A., Jeffrey D. Kittilson, Melissa M. Ehrman, and MarkA. Sheridan. Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) possess two somatostatin mRNAs that are differentially expressed. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R1553–R1561, 1999.— Previously, we isolated a 624-bp cDNA encoding for a 115amino acid preprosomatostatin containing [Tyr7,Gly10]somatostatin (SS)-14 (n...

Gardi, J., F. Obál, Jr., J. Fang, J. Zhang, and J. M. Krueger. Diurnal variations and sleep deprivation-induced changes in rat hypothalamic GHRH and somatostatin contents. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R1339–R1344, 1999.—Previous reports indicate that hypothalamic growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) promotes sleep and is involved in sleep regulation. The ai...

Wang, WenHui. Regulation of the ROMK channel: interaction of the ROMK with associate proteins. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Renal Physiol. 46): F826–F831, 1999.—The ROMK channel plays an important role in K recycling in the thick ascending limb (TAL) and K secretion in the cortical collecting duct (CCD). A large body of evidence indicates that the ROMK channel is a key component of the native K secreto...

Clancy, J. S., H. Takeshima, S. L. Hamilton, and M. B. Reid. Contractile function is unaltered in diaphragm from mice lacking calcium release channel isoform 3. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R1205–R1209, 1999.—Skeletal muscle expresses at least two isoforms of the calcium release channel in the sarcoplasmic reticulum (RyR1 and RyR3). Whereas the function of RyR...